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Gerardo del Olmo |
| "The Lophornis delattrei, (Rufous-crested Coquette), it is a beautiful hummingbird which lives in the tropics in south of Mexico and in Central America, this bird was used, among others, by the natives of prehispanic Mexico, for the practice of the beautiful and hard art of feather. Because of its crest, and due to the principal God of the Aztecs was Huitzilopochtli, which means left-handed hummingbird, I think this little bird deeply influenced in the feather artists. For the confection the famous, plumes and feather tiaras that were so commonly used by the Mexicas emperors. Lophornis delattrei is part of a collection of six illustrations, which I painted to illustrate the book "Huitzilin" The Hummingbird of the Antique Mexico, and can be appreciated in the website originalbirdart." Gerardo del Olmo |
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These scientific names can be found in the Roger Tory Peterson guide, edited in 1989, Spanish version.
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