Visorbearer

The visorbearers are hummingbirds in the bitypic genus Augastes in the family Trochilidae. The genus contains the following species:

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Augastes lumachellaHooded visorbearerBrazil
Augastes scutatusHyacinth visorbearerBrazil

Visorbearer
Augastes lumachella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Subfamily: Trochilinae
Genus: Augastes
Gould, 1849
Species

2, see text


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