Artchipel

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My take on a popular print, the 99th plate illustration from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur. Featured are Trochilus colubris (or Archilochus colubris) — Ruby-throated hummingbird, Heliactin cornuta — Horned Sungem, Topaza pella — Crimson Topaz, Lophornis ornata (now: Lophornis ornatus) — Tufted Coquette, Sparganura sappho (or Sappho sparganura) — Red-tailed Comet, Docimastes ensifer (now: Ensifera ensifera) — Sword-billed Hummingbird, Eutoxeres condamini — Buff-tailed Sicklebill, Lophornis gouldii — Dot-eared Coquette, Ornismya petasophora, Augastes lumachellus — Hooded Visorbearer, Hylocharis stokesii, and Steganura underwoodi (now: Ocreatus underwoodii) — Booted Racket-tail