. Wonders of the bird world. Birds. 92 Wonders of the Bird World Racket-tailed Humming-bird {Loddigcsia niirabilis). It well deserves its specific name of niirabilis or wonderful, for it is certainly one of the most extraordinary birds in existence. It was first discovered at Chachapoyas in Upper Amazonia, and was described by Gould in 1847, and to conceive of the way in which the majority of the Humming-birds are restricted to a limited area, I may state that Mr. Gould offered a large sum to travellers about to visit South America, if they would bring him back. The Racket-tailed Hamming-bird
. Wonders of the bird world. Birds. 92 Wonders of the Bird World Racket-tailed Humming-bird {Loddigcsia niirabilis). It well deserves its specific name of niirabilis or wonderful, for it is certainly one of the most extraordinary birds in existence. It was first discovered at Chachapoyas in Upper Amazonia, and was described by Gould in 1847, and to conceive of the way in which the majority of the Humming-birds are restricted to a limited area, I may state that Mr. Gould offered a large sum to travellers about to visit South America, if they would bring him back. The Racket-tailed Hamming-bird {Loddigesia jairabilis). specimens of the Loddigesia, and yet up to the time of his death in 1881 he had never succeeded in obtaining an example of this rare species, which up to that time re- mained unique in the Loddiges collection. In 1880, however, the celebrated Polish traveller Stolzmann revisited the town of Chachapoyas, whence the original example came from, and succeeded in rediscovering the species. He writes as follows—^ "It seems to be restricted to the basin of the Utcubamba, a little river on the right bank of the system of the Maranon, and is only found at an altitude ' Taczanowski, ' OniitJiologie du Pt'roii,' vol. i. p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sharpe, Richard Bowdler, 1847-1909. New York, Frederick A. Stokes company
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