Talk:Green-backed hillstar

The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Birds Low‑importance

Green-backed hillstar is part of WikiProject Birds, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative and easy-to-use ornithological resource. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Please do not substitute this template.BirdsWikipedia:WikiProject BirdsTemplate:WikiProject Birdsbird

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Birds To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Endemic birds of Papua New Guinea (more)
Cleanup : Bullfinch • Vesper sparrow • Bird flight • Bird bath (more)
Copyedit : Plushcap • Magpie duck • Saker falcon (more)
Expand : Phalarope • Nidicolous • Gouldian finch • Cathartes • Cnemophilidae • Avian malaria (more)
NPOV : Debeaking • Driven grouse shooting • Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital (more)
Stubs : Cathartiformes • Semiplumbeous hawk • Rainbow-bearded Thornbill • Sunda scops owl (more)
Update : Coal tit • Scottish crossbill • New Caledonian lorikeet • Operation Migration (more)
Verify : Argus (bird) • Blyth's frogmouth • Nik Borrow • Pytilia • Fregata • Chestnut-headed tesia • Darter • Pallid scops owl • Starling (more)
Wikify : Ninox boobook ocellata • The Institute for Bird Populations (more)
Other : Add photos to bird articles needing photos (search Flickr for free images). Add taxonomic authorities to genus articles.

More outstanding tasks at the project's cleanup listing, Category:Birds articles needing attention, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Todo.

Confusing subspecies names in genus of Green-backed Hillstar

I am aware of some scientific names which may not necessarily be lapses. My source is A Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World by Richard Howard and Alick Moore (1980 edition, p. 215). The entries are as follows:

Urochroa bougueri (White-tailed Hillstar)

U. b. bougueri

SW Colombia, NW Ecuador

U. b. eulcura

SW Colombia

U. b. leucura

E Ecuador

This suggests that the Green-backed Hillstar is polytypic. The unusual name "eulcura" is one of which I have not been able to trace the source, unless that source is The Birds of Colombia by Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1964). As this page denotes, the authority of leucura is Lawrence, 1864.

mmslouis db-user db-user (talk) 17:13, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]