Hylocharis leucotis

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Hylocharis leucotis (Vieillot, 1818)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 13-Jun-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Hylocharis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species and subspecies in this genus:

H. chrysura (Gilded Hummingbird) · H. cyanus (Flame-Rumped Sapphire) · H. cyanus cyanus (White-Chinned Sapphire) · H. eliciae (Blue-Throated Goldentail) · H. eliciae eliciae (Blue-Throated Goldentail) · H. grayi (Blue-Headed Sapphire) · H. grayi grayi (Blue-Headed Sapphire) · H. humboldtii (Humboldt's Sapphire) · H. leucotis (White-Eared Hummingbird) · H. leucotis borealis (White-Eared Hummingbird) · H. leucotis leucotis (White-Eared Hummingbird) · H. pyropygia (Flame-Rumped Sapphire) · H. sapphirina (Rufous-Throated Sapphire) · H. xantusii (Black-Fronted Hummingbird)

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Further Reading

• An introduction to the Trochilidae: or family of humming-birds / London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1861. url p. 61.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 380, p. 452, p. 495, p. 500.
• Catalogue of a collection of birds from Guatemala, by Ned Dearborn. 1 1907 Chicago, 1907. url p. 98.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 253.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 85.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 85.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 184.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 307, p. 661.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 340, p. 804.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 108, p. 239.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 141, p. 249.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices JNCC url p. 138.
• Contents and index to volume 1 / Charles B. Cory. 1 1917 Chicago: Natural History Museum, 1917. url p. 354.
• Genera of humming birds: being also a complete monograph of these birds / by Adolphe Boucard. London: [A. Boucard?], 1893-1895 [i.e. 1895] url p. 177, p. 177.
• Notes on a collection of birds from Michoacan, Mexico, by Emmet R. Blake and Harold C. Hanson. 22 1942 [Chicago]1942. url p. 562.
• Novon a journal of botanical nomenclature from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 10 2000 St. Louis, MO: Missouri Botanical Garden, url p. 313.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 294, p. 297.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 543, p. 601.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 535, p. 78.
• Trochilidae, bearbeitet von Ernst Hartert. Mit 34 abbildungen im texte. Berlin, R. Friedländer und sohn, 1900. url p. 227, p. 230.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 160.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Hylocharis leucotis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10090
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178069
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13847360
• IUCN ID: 215178
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3963003

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