Flame-rumped Sapphire
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| Hylocharis pyropygia Salvin & Godman, 1881 |
The Flame-rumped Sapphire (Hylocharis pyropygia) is a doubtfully valid species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family known only from Brazil. Today few authorties accept it as valid, instead believing it represents a hybrid between Chlorostilbon aureoventris and Hylocharis cyanus.
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- BirdLife International 2004. Hylocharis pyropygia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
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