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• Birds of Northern South America is an identification guidebook by ornithologists Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner, and Miguel Lentino.
• It lists the thirty-five hummingbird species found in Suriname.
• The horned sungem is a medium-sized hummingbird found in Suriname. It is identifiable by its distinctive multicolored, tufted crown and its short, black, straight bill.
• The ruby-topaz hummingbird is a small hummingbird found in Suriname. It is identifiable by its crimson crown and its short, black, curved bill.
Which choice most effectively uses information from the given sentences to emphasize a difference between the two birds?
One way to distinguish the horned sungem from the ruby-topaz hummingbird is to look at their bills: the horned sungem's is straight, whereas the ruby-topaz hummingbird's is curved.
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Identifiable by its short, black, straight bill and its distinctive multicolored, tufted crown, the horned sungem is a medium-sized hummingbird found in Suriname.
B
The ruby-topaz hummingbird is a small hummingbird identifiable by its crimson crown and its short, black, curved bill.
C
The horned sungem and the ruby-topaz hummingbird are two of the thirty-five different hummingbird species found in Suriname.
D