Lessonia (bird) explained
Lessonia is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family, found near freshwater lakes and saline marshes.
The genus was erected by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1832 with the Austral negrito as the type species.[1] [2] The genus name was chosen to honour the French Navy surgeon and naturalist René Lesson (1794–1849).[3]
Species
The genus contains two species:[4]
| Male | Female | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| | Lessonia oreas | Andean negrito | central Peru south into western Bolivia, down into north eastern Chile and northern Argentina |
| | Lessonia rufa | Austral negrito | Argentina and Chile, migrating north as far as Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay |
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Notes and References
- Book: Swainson . William John . William John Swainson . Richardson . J. . John Richardson (naturalist) . 1831 . Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America . Part 2. The Birds . J. Murray . London . 490 . The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume did not appear until 1832.
- Book: Traylor . Melvin A. Jr . Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. . 1979 . Check-list of Birds of the World . 8 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 173 .
- Web site: Jobling . J.A. . 2019 . Lessonia . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . Lynx Edicions . 1 July 2019 .
- Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2019 . Tyrant flycatchers . World Bird List Version 9.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 29 June 2019 .
