Biology:Attagis
Attagis is a genus of seedsnipe, a South American family of small gregarious waders which have adapted to a vegetarian diet.
These birds look superficially like partridges in structure and bill shape. They have short legs and long wings. Their 2-3 eggs are laid in a shallow scrape on the ground.
The genus was erected by the French ornithologists Isidore Saint-Hilaire and René Lesson in 1831 with the rufous-bellied seedsnipe (Attagis gayi) as the type species.[1][2] The name Attagis is the word used for a game bird in Ancient Greek texts. It probably referred to the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus).[3]
Species
The genus contains two species:[4]
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| Rufous-bellied seedsnipe
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Attagis gayi Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I & Lesson, RP, 1831 Three subspecies
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Andes of South America south from Ecuador.
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| White-bellied seedsnipe | Attagis malouinus (Boddaert, 1783) |
southwestern Argentina and Tierra del Fuego.
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These are the larger of the four seedsnipe species.
References
- ↑ Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore; Lesson, René (1831) (in fr). Centurie Zoologique. pp. 130, 135. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28724675.
- ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed (1934). Check-list of Birds of the World. 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 306. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483119.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "Grebes, flamingos, buttonquail, plovers, painted-snipes, jacanas, plains-wanderer, seedsnipes". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/grebes/.
- Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater ISBN 0-395-60237-8
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