Science Art: A New Hummingbird From Ecuador, 1926

Scientific illustration of the Aethereal Sylph hummingbird, brilliant reds and greens and long, ornamental tails - now known as the violet-tailed sylph.
Scientific illustration of the Aethereal Sylph hummingbird, brilliant reds and greens and long, ornamental tails - now known as the violet-tailed sylph.

From the pages of the November-December 1926 issue of Natural History magazine (found on archive.org) flies “The Aethereal Sylph (Cyanolesbia coelestis aetherius Chapman)”.

The blue… lesbian? I’ll go with aethereal sylph, I think, although nowadays, they’re violet-tailed sylphs.