phaethornithinae

Updated: May 13, 2025

On account of a trivial difference in habit they have sometimes been separated in two sub-families: the Phaethornithinae, found in shady tropical forests; and the Trochilinae, comprising humming-birds which inhabit open sunny places and to this division they mostly belong.

W. H. (William Henry) Hudson - The Naturalist in La Plata