Hyacinth Visorbearer
Augastes scutatus (Temminck, 1824)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Hyacinth Visorbearer, Augastes scutatus, is a hummingbird that breeds in south-east Brazil. It is confined to Brazil, with its range centred on Minas Gerais. The species is sedentary and is found in dry rocky country with sparse vegetation, gallery forest, bushy areas, and ravines in montane forest, depending on the subspecies. Males and females are similar, but the male has a longer bill and, in the nominate form, a shining golden green forehead, throat and chest pattern, bronze-green upperparts, a deep blue belly, and a purplish blue ruff on the sides of the neck.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: se Brazil
