Unlike the nests of the trochilidae, which are saucer-shaped, it was of a long, funnel-like form, broad at the top and tapering towards the lower part.
"On the Banks of the Amazon"
W.H.G. Kingston
These birds, with several others of similar habits and formation, are classed separately from the trochilidae, and belong to the genus Phaethornis.
"On the Banks of the Amazon"
W.H.G. Kingston