The New Neotropical Companion

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Plate 4- 29. A Long- billed Hermit taking time to rest from
having made multiple visits to heliconia clumps. Photo by
James Adams.

Plate 4- 28. Heliconias, with large and colorful bracts surrounding their small flowers, are easy for hummingbirds to find at forest
edges and gaps. Photo by John Kricher.

Plate 4- 30. Cecropia trees, characteristic of forest edges and
gaps, are very easy to identify (at least to genus level), with
their distinctive spreading shape and large palmate leaves.
Photo by John Kricher.

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