Archilochus (genus)

Archilochus (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Archilochus"


image_caption = Male Ruby-throated Hummingbird
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Apodiformes
familia = Trochilidae
genus = " Archilochus "
genus_authority = Reichenbach, 1854
subdivision_ranks = species
subdivision = "A. colubris"
"A. alexandri"

"Archilochus" is a genus of hummingbirds. It consists of two small migratory species which breed in North America and winter in Central America, Mexico and the southern United States.

They are:
*Ruby-throated Hummingbird, "Archilochus colubris"
*Black-chinned Hummingbird, "Archilochus alexandri"

References:

"National Geographic" "Field Guide to the Birds of North America" ISBN:0792268776


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