Black-breasted Hillstar

SCI Name:  Oreotrochilus melanogaster
Protonym:  Oreotrochilus melanogaster Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt15 no.168 p.10
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Oreotrochilus
Taxonomy Code:  blbhil1
Type Locality:  No locality.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1847
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

OREOTROCHILUS
(Trochilidae; Ϯ Andean Hillstar O. estella) Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  mountain (i.e. Bolivian Andes) ; genus Trochilus Linnaeus, 1758, hummingbird; "Genus OREOTROCHILUS, n. g.  Rostrum capite longius, subcylindricum, apulo incurvum.  Alæ subgrandes valentes.  Cauda magna, rotundata, rectricibus attenuatis, submucronatis, rigidis.  Pedes fortes.  Digitus et unguis postici digito et ungui mediis longitudine æquales.  Tarsi plumis vestiti.  Gula luminosa infra torquata.   ...  I propose this term as a generic appellation for a section of the Trochilidæ, which has hitherto only been found immediately beneath the line of perpetual congelation, where they feed upon the insects which resort to the newly expanded flowers.  The type is  Sp. 1. OREOTROCHILUS ESTELLA.  Orthorhynchus Estella, D'Orb. Voy. Am. Birds, pl. 6. fig.1.  ...  O. Ceciliæ, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 43.    Sp. 2. OREOTROCHILUS LEUCOPLEURUS, sp. nov.   ...   Sp. 3. OREOTROCHILUS CHIMBORAZO.  T. Chimborazo, Bourc. in Rev. Zool. Sept. 1846, p. 305.    Sp. 4. OREOTROCHILUS ADELA.  Orthorhynchus Adela, D'Orb. Voy. Am. Birds, pl. 61. fig. 2   ...   Sp. 5. OREOTROCHILUS MELANOGASTER, sp. nov." (Gould 1847).
Var. Orotrochilus ("OROTROCHILUS  ...  Da Oreotrochilus als sechssylbiges Wort nicht anwendbar, verkürzen wir dasselbe Analogie von οροσπιζης u. a. in Orotrochilus." (Cabanis & Heine 1860)), Oriotrochilus.   
Synon. Alcidius, Gnaphocercus.

melanogaster / melanogastra / melanogastris / melanogastrus
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos  black; γαστηρ gastēr, γαστρος gastros  belly.
● ex “Black-bellied Grosbeak” of Latham 1783 (syn. Euplectes afer).