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Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)

Short-tailed Emerald (Chlorostilbon poortmani) - HBW 5, p. 577

French: Émeraude à queue courte German: Kurzschwanz-Smaragdkolibri Spanish: Esmeralda Colicorta
Other common names: Berlepsch’s Emerald (“inexpectatus”)

Taxonomy: Ornismya poortmani Bourcier, 1843, Colombia.
Possibly forms a superspecies with C. stenurus and C. alice. Race euchloris has sometimes been considered a separate species, due mainly to suggestion of possible overlap in range, but poorly known. Forms “inexpectatus” and “auratus”, known by single specimens from “Bogotá” and “Peru” respectively, are apparently aberrant individuals of present species. “Ptochoptera iolaima”, known from a specimen taken at Ypanema, São Paulo (Brazil), is probably a hybrid between present species and C. alice. Two subspecies rec.. View all taxonomy...

Taxonomy: Ornismya poortmani Bourcier, 1843, Colombia.
Possibly forms a superspecies with C. stenurus and C. alice. Race euchloris has sometimes been considered a separate species, due mainly to suggestion of possible overlap in range, but poorly known. Forms “inexpectatus” and “auratus”, known by single specimens from “Bogotá” and “Peru” respectively, are apparently aberrant individuals of present species. “Ptochoptera iolaima”, known from a specimen taken at Ypanema, São Paulo (Brazil), is probably a hybrid between present species and C. alice. Two subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • euchloris (Reichenbach, 1854) - C Colombia (W slope of E Andes S to Huila, and E slope in Santander).
  • poortmani (Bourcier, 1843) - E Colombia (E slope of E Andes, from Boyacá S to W Meta) and NW Venezuela (Mérida and Táchira).

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