Diagnoses of hybrid hummingbirds (Aves : Trochilidae). 15. A new intergeneric hybrid (Hylocharis leucotis X Selasphorus platycercus) from the Huachuca Mountains, southeastern Arizona

Abstract

A hummingbird specimen collected by W. W. Brown in 1917 in the Huachuca Mountains, southeastern Arizona, is a hybrid of Hylocharis leucotis (white-eared hummingbird) X Selasphorus platycercus (broad-tailed hummingbird). Brown's specimen, which exhibits a blended mosaic of plumage characters of the presumed parental species, represents the first known instance of hybridization between species currently placed in Hylocharis and Selasphorus.