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Rhetorical Synthesis · Question 1 of 10

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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.

Rhetorical Synthesis · Difficulty 3/5ID 0c17d419

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.

Identifiable by its short, black, straight bill and its distinctive multicolored, tufted crown, the horned sungem is a medium-sized hummingbird found in Suriname.

The ruby-topaz hummingbird is a small hummingbird identifiable by its crimson crown and its short, black, curved bill.

The horned sungem and the ruby-topaz hummingbird are two of the thirty-five different hummingbird species found in Suriname.

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