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First documented record of the Sapphire Quail-Dove Geotrygon saphirina Bonaparte, 1855, in Brazil, an overlooked specimen from the Klages expedition to Amazonia

Guy Kirwan, José Fernando Pacheco, Alexander C. Lees

Abstract


We report the long overlooked first record of Sapphire Quail-Dove Geotrygon saphirina in Brazil, a male specimen collected at São Paulo de Olivença, Amazonas state, in March 1923, by Samuel M. Klages. This is the first and only documented record for the country, pre-dating a sight record from Benjamin Constant, in extreme western Brazil, in April 1966.


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