Ecuadorian Hillstar

SCI Name:  Oreotrochilus chimborazo
Protonym:  Trochilus Chimborazo Rev.Zool. 9 p.305
Taxonomy:  Caprimulgiformes / Trochilidae / Oreotrochilus
Taxonomy Code:  ecuhil1
Type Locality:  Mt. Chimborazo, Ecuador.
Author:  Delattre & Bourcier
Publish Year:  1846
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.

chimborazensis / chimborazo
Mt. Chimborazo, Ecuador.

SUBSPECIES

Ecuadorian Hillstar (jamesonii)
SCI Name: Oreotrochilus chimborazo jamesonii
jamesoni / jamesonii
● Dr William Jameson (1815-1882) British botanist, Superintendent of Saharunpur Botanic Gardens, Punjab 1842-1875, collector (syn. Cursorius cursor, syn. Saxicola macrorhynchus).
● James Sligo Jameson (1856-1888) Irish explorer, hunter, naturalist (Dyaphorophyia, subsp. Lagonosticta rhodopareia, Parmoptila, syn. Ploceus xanthops).
● Prof. William Jameson (1796-1873) Scottish academician, botanist, zoologist, collector in Quito, Ecuador 1826-1873 (Gallinago, subsp. Oreotrochilus chimborazo).
● Prof. Robert Jameson (1774-1854) Scottish zoologist, Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University, founder of the Wernerian Natural History Society (syn. Larus novaehollandiae).
● See: jamersoni
● See: jamiesoni

Ecuadorian Hillstar (chimborazo)
SCI Name: Oreotrochilus chimborazo chimborazo
chimborazensis / chimborazo
Mt. Chimborazo, Ecuador.