Trochilus is a genus of hummingbirds which comprises the streamertails.
Trochilus or Trochilos may also refer to:
Phoebe or Phœbe may refer to:
Rhea may refer to:
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The red-billed streamertail, also known as the doctor bird, scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird, is indigenous to Jamaica, where it is the most abundant and widespread member of the hummingbird family. While most authorities now consider it a separate species, some continue to consider it conspecific with the black-billed streamertail.
Strix may refer to:
The black-billed streamertail is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is endemic to eastern Jamaica. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Trochilus polytmus.
The streamertails are hummingbirds in the genus Trochilus, that are endemic to Jamaica. It is the type genus of the family Trochilidae. Today most authorities consider the two taxa in this genus as separate species, but some continue to treat them as conspecific, in which case scitulus is a subspecies of T. polytmus. A wide range of common names apply to this combined species, including green-and-black streamertail, Jamaican streamertail or simply streamertail. The name streamertail is a reference to the greatly elongated rectrices of the males.
Alcippe may refer to:
In Greek mythology, Orsilochus, Ortilochus (Ὀρτίλοχος) or Orsilocus is a name that may refer to:
Perdix was a nephew and student of Daedalus in Greek mythology. In other sources, Perdix was the mother of Talos or Attalus, and sister of Daedalus.
Lari may refer to:
In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, published in 1758, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus described 554 species of bird and gave each a binomial name.
In Greek mythology, Munichus may refer to:
In Greek mythology, Trochilus was a member of the Argive royal house as the son of Princess Callithyia.
In Greek mythology, Callithyia or Kallithyia may refer to two different women:
The trochilus or trochilos, sometimes called the crocodile bird, is a legendary bird, first described by Herodotus, and later by Aristotle, Pliny, and Aelian, which was supposed to have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with the Nile crocodile: it was said to pick leeches from the crocodile's throat by Herodotus, and to pick the crocodile's teeth by Aristotle. The trochilus has subsequently been spuriously identified with several bird species endemic to the Nile valley.