A Campanian by birth, and therefore probably not a Roman with the full rights of a citizen, Gnaeus Naevius nevertheless stands as one of the most interesting, talented, and allusive figures in the early history of Roman literature. He was a pioneer...

We sequenced 912 bp of the cytochrome-b gene to examine phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic Saw-billed Hermit (Ramphodon naevius), a large and distinctive hummingbird endemic to tropical forests of southeastern Brazil. Bootstrapped maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses of sequence data from 11 hummingbirds...