In accord with AOS-SACC (Proposals 780 and 781) and AOS-NACC (Chesser et al. 2020b), the sequence of hummingbirds in the group previously listed between Chlorostilbon and Hylocharis is revised, based primarily on McGuire et al. (2014) and Hernández-Baños et al. (2020). In accord with AOS-SACC (Proposal 781), change the scientific name of White-chinned Sapphire from Hylocharis cyanus to Chlorestes cyanus, based on genetic evidence (McGuire et al. 2014) that White-chinned Sapphire belongs to a disparate group of species for which the oldest available genus name is Chlorestes (Stiles et al. 2017a, b).
Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ (連結)