About Calliphlox mitchellii (Bourcier, 1847)
The purple-throated woodstar (Calliphlox mitchellii) measures 6.8 to 7.5 cm (2.7 to 3.0 in) long and weighs 3.0 to 3.3 g (0.11 to 0.12 oz). Both sexes share a short, straight, black bill, and dusky bronze-green upperparts with a white patch on either side of the rump. Males have a small white spot behind the eye, while females have a downward-curved white line in the same spot. The male's gorget is shining violet-purple with a white band below it. The male's lower breast is dusky bronze, and its belly and flanks are rufous. It has a forked, brownish purple tail. The female has a buffy white throat with dusky speckles along the side, a white band below the throat, a green lower breast, and a rufous belly. Its central tail feathers are bronze-green, and the rest are cinnamon with a black band near the tip. This species is found discontinuously across eastern Panama's Darién Province, along both slopes of Colombia's western Andes extending south to central Ecuador, and in southern Ecuador. It inhabits the edges and interior of humid forest and cloudforest. Its elevation range spans from sea level to 2,400 m (7,900 ft), and it is most numerous at elevations above 1,000 m (3,300 ft).
