Streamertail

Streamertail
	Adult male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Subfamily:	Trochilinae
Genus:	Trochilus; Linnaeus, 1758
Species
	1-2, see text

The streamertails are hummingbirds in the genus Trochilus, which is endemic to Jamaica. It is the type genus of the family Trochilidae. Today most authorities consider the two taxa in this genus as separate species, but some (e.g. AOU) continue to treat them as conspecific, in which case scitulus is a subspecies of T. polytmus. A wide range of common names apply to this combined species, including green-and-black streamertail, Jamaican streamertail or simply streamertail. The name streamertail is a reference to the greatly elongated rectrices of the males.

Species

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Trochilus polytmus	Red-billed streamertail	Jamaica
	Trochilus scitulus	Black-billed streamertail	eastern Jamaica

gollark: Those could exist without C however.

gollark: I doubt it's a *likely* race condition, but I would like to avoid it.

gollark: I'm pretty sure that the solution to this in C would just be to have race conditions and not notice.

gollark: I was trying to look at how other IRCds solve this, but they're all just tens of thousands of lines of incomprehensible C which probably still contain race conditions, or miniircd, which as far as I can tell just ignores the problem.

gollark: This was determined using methods.

References

Schuchmann, K. L. (1999). Genus Trochilus. Pp. 572 in: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., & Sargatal, K. eds. (1999). Handbook of the Birds of the World.. Vol. 5. Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-25-3

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