Loxigilla violacea

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, montaine evergreen forests, tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, arid lowland scrubs • Maximum Elevation: 2,000 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Loxigilla violacea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Loxigilla

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. barbadensis (Barbados Bullfinch) · L. noctis (Lesser Antillean Bullfinch) · L. portoricensis (Puerto Rican Bullfinch) · L. portoricensis portoricensis (Puerto Rican Bullfinch) · L. violacea (Greater Antillean Bullfinch) · L. violacea violacea (Greater Antillean Bullfinch)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the birds of the West Indies: which do not occur elsewhere in North America north of Mexico / by C. J. Maynard. Newtonville [Mass.]: Maynard, 1898. url p. 22, p. 22.
• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 219.
• A naturalist in the Bahamas, John I. Northrop, October 12, 1861-June 25, 1891; a memorial volume / edited with a biographical introd. New YorkColumbia University Press1910 url p. 56.
• A naturalist in the Bahamas: John I. Northrop, October 12 1861 - June 25, 1891; a memorial volume, ed., with a biographical introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn. New York, The Columbia university press[c1910] url p. 56.
• A naturalist in the Bahamas: New York, Columbia University Press[c1910] url .
• Birds of the Bahama islands; containing many birds new to the islands, and a number of undescribed winter plumages of North American species. By Charles B. Cory. Boston, The author, 1880. url p. 87.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 434, p. 435, p. 437, p. 459, p. 471, p. 472, p. 49, p. 552, p. 613, p. 679.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1970 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 105, p. 191, p. 191, fig. 25.
• Catalogue of West Indian birds, containing a list of all species known to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad, by Charles B. Cory. .. Boston, The author, 1892. url p. 148.
• Catalogue of a collection of American birds / belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater. London: N. Trubner and Co., 1862. url p. 102.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1938 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. url p. 160, p. 161.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 82, p. 83.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 159.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 159.
• Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, 1891. url p. 48.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 692.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 158.
• Condition and doings of the Boston Society of Natural History as exhibited by the annual reports. Boston url p. 24.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 168, p. 289, p. 325, p. 481, p. 487, p. 512, p. 620, p. 637, p. 650, p. 675.
• Narrative and preliminary report of Bahama expedition, by C.C. Nutting. Iowa City, Iowa, By authority of the Regents, 1895 url p. 245.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 40.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url , p. 362, p. 362.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 796.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 1 1878 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 250, p. 39, p. 40, p. 504, p. 651, p. 66, p. 67.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 198, p. 231, p. 301.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 19 1878 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 250, p. 4, p. 504.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 126, p. 180, p. 203, p. 294, p. 295, p. 297, p. 298, p. 350, p. 351, p. 410, p. 48, p. 49, p. 70.
• The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url , , .
• The birds of the Bahama Islands: containing many birds new to the Islands, and a number of undescribed winter plumages of North American birds / by Charles B. Cory. Boston, U.S.A.: Estes & Lauriat, 1890, c1879. url , p. 20, p. 87.
• The birds of the West Indies. Including all speciesknown to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad. By Charles B. Cory. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1889. url p. 90.
• The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. by R. Bowdler Sharpe. London, 1906. url p. 97.
• Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. New Haven: Published by the Academy, 1866- url p. 338, p. 338.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 19 1982 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 282, p. 290.

Notes

Contributors

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• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
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• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7883
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-560891
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14369721
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 560891
• IUCN ID: 220503
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 131573

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