Flame-rumped Sapphire
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The flame-rumped sapphire (''Hylocharis pyropygia'') is a doubtfully valid species of
hummingbird Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the Family (biology), biological family Trochilidae. With approximately 366 species and 113 genus, genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but most species are found in Cen ...
in the family
Trochilidae Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the Family (biology), biological family Trochilidae. With approximately 366 species and 113 genus, genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but most species are found in Cen ...
known only from
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. Today few authorities accept it as valid, instead believing it represents a hybrid between '' Chlorostilbon lucidus'' and '' Hylocharis cyanus''.


References

* BirdLife International 2004
2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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