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Tufted Coquette, the first plate of the set
The first plate of the set, Tufted Coquette.

Family of Hummingbirds, Vol. 3, complete set

By John Gould, 1849-1861

All 85 plates of Family of Hummingbirds as facsimile giclées at the size of the original sheet, kept in a Solander box the way a library keeps the original.

  • 85 plates, each 15 × 22 in
  • A title page and a contents page with the titles of all plates
  • A Solander box in linen with gold lettering, in the colour and lettering you choose
  • A certificate of authenticity

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Family of Hummingbirds

Contents

John Gould, 1849-1861

  1. 1Tufted CoquetteLophornis ornatus
  2. 2Gould’s CoquetteLophornis gouldi
  3. 3Frilled CoquetteLophornis magnificus
  4. 4Great-crested CoquetteLophornis regulus
  5. 5De Lattres’s CoquetteLophornis ornatus
  6. 6Spangled CoquetteLophornis reginae
  7. 8Festive CoquetteLophornis chalybeus
  8. 9Peruvian CoquetteLophornis verreauxi
  9. 10Racket-tailDiscura longoauda
  10. 11Popelaires Thorn-tailGouldia popelaire
  11. 12Langsdorff’s Thorn-tailGouldia langsdorffi
  12. 13Convers’ Thorn-tailGouldia conversi
  13. 14LetitiaGouldia laetitiae
  14. 15Ruby-throated HummingbirdTrochilus colubris
  15. 16Purple-throated HummingbirdTrochilus alexandri
  16. 17Little HummingbirdMellisuga minima
  17. 18Costa’s CalypteCalypte costae
  18. 19Anna’s CalypteCalypte annae
  19. 20Helena’s CalypteCalypte helenae
  20. 21Rufous FlamebearerSelasphorus rufus
  21. 22Little FlamebearerSelasphorus scintilla
  22. 23Floresi’s FlamebearerSelasphorus floresii
  23. 24Broad-tailed FlamebearerSelasphorusplatycercus
  24. 25Heloisa’s FlamebearerSelasphorus heloisae
  25. 26Mexican SatelliteCalothorax calliope
  26. 27Mexican StarCalothorax cyanopogon
  27. 28Beautiful WoodstarCalothorax pulchara
  28. 29Mulsant’s WoodstarCalothorax mulsanti
  29. 30Decorated WoodstarCalothorax decoratus
  30. 31Heliodore’s WoodstarCalothorax heliodori
  31. 32Short-tailed WoodstarCalothorax micrurus
  32. 33Crimson-throated WoodstarCalothorax rosae
  33. 34Jourdan’s WoodstarCalothorax jourdani
  34. 35Fanny’s WoodstarCalothorax fanny
  35. 36Yarrell’s WoodstarCalothorax yarrelli
  36. 37Cora’s SheartailThaumastura corae
  37. 38Evening HummingbirdRhodopis vespera
  38. 39Mexican SheartailThaumastura elizae
  39. 40Bahama WoodstarCalothorax evelynae
  40. 41Slender SheartailThaumastura enicura
  41. 42SparklingtailTryphaena duponti
  42. 43The AmethystCalliphlox amethystina
  43. 44Mitchell’s AmethystCalliphlox mitchelli
  44. 45Marvellous HummingbirdLiddigesia mirabillis
  45. 46White-booted RackettailSpathura underwoodi
  46. 47Ecuadorian RackettailSpathura melananthera
  47. 48Peruvian RackettailSpathura peruana
  48. 49Red-booted RackettailSpathura rufocaligata
  49. 50Scissor-tailed RackettailSpathura cissiura
  50. 51Bogota TrainbearerLesbia gouldi
  51. 52Graceful TrainbearerLesbia gracilis
  52. 53Nouna KoaliLesbia nuna
  53. 54Trainbearer (1)Lesbia amaryllis
  54. 55Trainbearer (2)Lesbia eucharis
  55. 56Blue-tailed SylphCynanthus cyanurus
  56. 57Green-tailed SylphC ynanthus smaragdicaudus
  57. 58The Sappho CometCometes sparganurus
  58. 59The Phaon CometCometes phaon
  59. 60Purple-tailed CometCometes glyceria
  60. 61Charles’s CometCometes caroll
  61. 62Temminck’s Sapphire-wingPterophanes temmincki
  62. 63Shining SunbeamAglaeactis cupripennisvolume 3 plate 63
  63. 64Castelnau’s SunbeamAglaeactis castelnaui
  64. 66Guerin’s HelmetcrestOxypogon guerini
  65. 67Linden’s HelmetcrestOxypogon lindeni
  66. 68Columbian ThornbillRamphomicron heteropogon
  67. 69Stanley’s ThornbillRamphomicron stanleyi
  68. 70Southern ThornbillRamphomicron vulcani
  69. 71Herran’s ThornbillRamphomicron herrani
  70. 72Red-capped ThornbillRamphomicron ruficeps
  71. 73ThornbillRamphomicron microrhyncha
  72. 74WhittipUrosticte benjamini
  73. 75Coppery TailMetallura cupreicauda
  74. 76Brassy TailMetallura aeneicauda
  75. 77Purple TailMetallura williami
  76. 78Primoli’s HummingbirdMeallura primolinus
  77. 79Ryrian TailMetallura tyrianthinia
  78. 80Violet TailMetallura smaragdinicollis
  79. 81Purple-throated AdelomyaAdelomyia inornata
  80. 82Black-eared AdelomyiaAdelomyia melanogenys
  81. 83Spotted AdelomyiaAdelomyia maculata
  82. 84Purple-tailed AvocetAvocettinus eurypterus
  83. 85Fiery-tailed AvocetAvocettula recurvirostris
  84. 86Blossom CrownAdelomyia floriceps
  85. 87Chestnut-bellied AdelomyiaAdelomyia castaneiventris

The contents page in the box lists every plate. Each title opens the single print.

About the original

John Gould (1804-1881) published A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds between 1849 and 1861: five volumes with 360 hand-coloured lithographs. Most plates show two or three birds among plants, at least one of them in flight to show the colour of its feathers.

Volume 3 of five holds the coquettes, thorntails, woodstars and sheartails, racket-tails, trainbearers, sylphs, comets, sunbeams, helmetcrests and thornbills.

Title
Family of Hummingbirds
Published
1849-1861
Format
Imperial folio, 15 × 22 in
Plates
85

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