Purplish honeycreeper

Species of bird

Purplish honeycreeper

Purplish honeycreeper, illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Passeriformes
Family:  | Thraupidae
Genus:  | Chlorophanes
Species:  |

C. purpurascens

Binomial name
Chlorophanes purpurascens

Sclater & Salvin, 1873

The purplish honeycreeper (Chlorophanes purpurascens) is a bird in the Thraupidae, or tanager family. It is known only from the type specimen, a trade-skin held in the British Museum, and is thought to be an intergeneric hybrid between the green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza) and either the red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) or the blue dacnis (Dacnis cayana), though Hellmayr, in his Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands, considered it a good species.[1][2]

The type locality on the specimen's label was given as Caracas in Venezuela. However Storer, when discussing the specimen and the characteristics of its preparation, suggested that it was more likely to derive from the Paria Peninsula of northern Venezuela.[1]

Male green honeycreeper Male red-legged honeycreeper Male blue dacnis

## References

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1. ^ a b Storer, Robert W. (1957). "The Hybrid Origin of Chlorophanes purpurascens" (PDF). Auk. 74 (4): 507. doi:10.2307/4081756. JSTOR 4081756.
2. ^ Hellmayr, C.E. (1909). "Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands. Part 8". Fieldiana Zoology. Publication. 13 (8): 250. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2985.

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