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Updated: May 14, 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.
The Phaethorninae are certainly more numerousin the Amazons region that the Trochilinae. They are long and purseshaped. The young when first hatched have very much shorter bills than their parents. Snakes were very numerous at Caripi; many harmless species were found near the house, and these sometimes came into the rooms.
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