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Washington, D.C.: Conservation International, 1992. Print. BirdLife International (2015) Species factsheet: Geotrygon purpurata. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.orgon 29/05/2015. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2015) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 29/05/2015. BirdLife International 2012. Androdon aequatorialis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 May 2015. Tooth-billed Hummingbird (Androdon aequatorialis), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: 2010. "Banded Ground-cuckoo Photos and Facts." Wildscreen ARKive. Wildscreen, n.d. Web. 28 May 2015. 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