Species Authority

Lawrence, 1877

Synonym/s

Common Name

Brace's Emerald

Locality

New Providence Island, Bahamas

Last Record

July 1877

IUCN status

[url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/106001885/0]Extinct[/url]

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Taxonomic Notes

Hypodigm

Known only from the holotype collected on New Providence Island in 1877 (Graves & Olson, 1987).

Notes

References

[b]Original Scientific Description:[/b]

 

Lawrence, G.N. (1877). [url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109884#page/82/mode/1up]Descriptions of new species of  birds of the families Trochilidae and Tetraonidae[/url]. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 1: 50-52.

 

[b]Species Bibliography:[/b]

 

Graves, Gary R., and, Olson, Storrs L. (1987). Chlorostilbon bracei Lawrence, an extinct species of hummingbird from New Providence Island, Bahamas. The Auk 104: 296-302 (available online: https://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v104n02/p0296-p0302.pdf)

 

Olson, Storrs L. and Hilgartner, W. B. (1982). Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 48: 22-56.