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Nopolo, Baja California Sur, March 2008

Basilinna xantusii

Hylocharis xantusii

[edit] Identification

8-9 cm

• Green upperparts and back
• Blue-black crown and face
• Straight dark tail
• White eyestripe with a black eyestripe below
• Cinnamon brown underparts
• Throat
  • Brown in the female
  • Green in the male
• Black-tipped slender straight bill (male)

[edit] Distribution

Photo by tehag
Nopolo, Baja California, Sur, July 2010

Endemic to Baja California. Accidental vagrant to California and British Columbia.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Some authorities^2,3 place this species in the genus Hylocharis.

[edit] Habitat

Arid scrub, desert, mesquite trees and back yards.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes nectar and insects.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Dickinson EC (ed.) 2003. The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. ISBN 9780691117010
3. Gill, F and M Wright. 2008. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, USA. 2006. ISBN 9780691128276. Update (2008) downloaded from http://worldbirdnames.org/names.html.

• List of references

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