Eriocnemis isaacsonii (Parzudaki, 1845)

Isaacson's puffleg

Synonym/s: Eriocnemis luciani isaacsonii Parzudaki, 1845

Probably an intergeneric hybrid (Schuchmann et al., 2001, and references therein)

Hilty & Brown 1986, FjeldsaÊ&Krabbe 1990, Sibley & Monroe 1990

Original scientific description:

Parzudaki, M. (1845). Nouvelle espèce d'oiseau-mouche. Rev. Zool.: 95.

Other references:

Berlioz, J. & Jouanin, C. (1944): Liste des Trochili-dés trouvés dans les collections commerciales de Bogota. Oiseau 14 (nouv. ser.): 126-155.

Hilty, S.L. & Brown, W. L. (1986): A guide to thebirds of Colombia. Princeton, New Jersey.

Fjeldså, J. & Krabbe, N. (1990): Birds of the high Andes. Svendborg, Denmark.

Peters, J. L. (1945): Check-list of birds of the world,Vol. 5. Cambridge, Mass.

Schuchmann, Karl-L., Weller, André-A. and Heynen, Iris. (2001). Systematics and biogeography of the Andean genus Eriocnemis (Aves: Trochilidae). J. Ornithol. 142: 433-481.

Sibley, C. G. & Monroe, B. L. Jr. (1990): Distribution and taxonomy of birds of the world. New Ha-ven.