Violet-headed Hummingbird (Klais guimeti) [XC683731]
by Paul Driver from Parque Francisco Tamayo, urb. Manzanares, mun. Baruta, Ccs, Miranda, Venezuela (?)
Violet-headed Hummingbird (Klais guimeti) [XC892716]
by id from Wild Sumaco Lodge, Cant\u00f3n Archidona, Napo, Ecuador (song)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Abeillia. Closely related to Stephanoxis. Nominate and subspecies pallidiventris intergrade in south-eastern Ecuador.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
merrittii (Lawrence, 1861) - Eastern Honduras to eastern Panama.
guimeti (Bourcier, 1843) - Northern and western Venezuela through eastern Colombia and Ecuador to extreme northern and north-eastern Peru and extreme north-western and northern Brazil.
pallidiventris Stolzmann, 1926 - Eastern Peru and west-central Bolivia.