Visorbearer

The visorbearers are hummingbirds in the bitypic genus Augastes in the family Trochilidae.

Visorbearer
Augastes lumachella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Subfamily:	Polytminae
Genus:	Augastes Gould, 1849
Type species
Trochilus superbus[1] Vieillot, 1822
Species
2, see text

Species

The genus contains the following species:^[2]

Genus Augastes – Gould, 1849 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Hooded visorbearer	Augastes lumachella (Lesson, 1839)	Brazil	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Hyacinth visorbearer	Augastes scutatus (Temminck, 1824) Three subspecies A. s. scutatus A. s. ilseae A. s. soaresi	Brazil	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC