Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)

Stripe-breasted Starthroat (Heliomaster squamosus) - HBW 5, p. 664

French: Colibri médiastin German: Violettkehlkolibri Spanish: Colibrí Escamoso
Other common names: White-striped Hummingbird

Taxonomy: Trochilus squamosus Temminck, 1823, Bahia, Brazil.
Present species has occasionally been separated in genus Lepidolarynx; however, details of tail and bill morphology vary in a continuum from H. constantii and H. longirostris to H. furcifer, with present species occupying an intermediate position, and treatment of all four as congeners now generally considered more appropriate; some authors also merge Rhodopis. Monotypic.

Distribution: E Brazil (Pernambuco through Bahia, Goiás and Minas Gerais to São Paulo).