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Green-breasted Mountaingem
Lampornis sybillae (Salvin & Godman, 1892)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Green-breasted Mountaingem, Lampornis sybillae, is a hummingbird that breeds in Honduras and Nicaragua. It belongs to the family Trochilidae and was described by Salvin and Godman in 1892. In its range it occurs in central and eastern Honduras and north-western Nicaragua, where it uses humid evergreen forest, pine-oak forest and the transition into cloudforest. It is a small species with a straight black bill, and adults of both sexes show metallic green upperparts with bronze on the rump, a white line behind the eye, and a narrow pale stripe below the cheek.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- Middle America: Honduras and Nicaragua
