Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)

Turquoise-throated Puffleg (Eriocnemis godini) - HBW 5, p. 639

French: Érione turquoise German: Türkiskehl-Höschenkolibri Spanish: Calzadito Turquesa

Taxonomy: Trochilus Godini Bourcier, 1851, Guayabamba, Ecuador.
Forms superspecies with E. cupreoventris. Doubtful species “E. soederstroemi” is regarded by some authors as a race or aberrant form of present species, or a hybrid of E. nigrivestis x E. luciani. Monotypic.

Distribution: NW Ecuador; possibly also SW Colombia.