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Visorbearer
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The visorbearers are hummingbirds in the bitypic genus Augastes in the family Trochilidae.
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Visorbearer | |
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Augastes lumachella | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Subfamily: | Polytminae |
Genus: | Augastes Gould, 1849 |
Type species | |
Trochilus superbus[1] Vieillot, 1822 | |
Species | |
2, see text |
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