Editing Ruby-throated hummingbird (section)

==Taxonomy==
The ruby-throated hummingbird was [[Species description|formally described]] by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1758 in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' under the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Trochilus colubris''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | authorlink=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=120 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | place=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727025 }}</ref> Linnaeus based his description on the earlier account by [[Mark Catesby]] in his ''The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands'' that had been published in 1729 and that by [[George Edwards (naturalist)|George Edwards]] in his ''A Natural History of Uncommon Birds'' that had been published in 1743.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Catesby  | first=Mark | author-link=Mark Catesby | year=1729 | title=The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands | volume=1 | place=London | publisher=W. Innys and R. Manby | language=English, French | page=65 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40753313 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | last=Edwards | first=George | author-link=George Edwards (naturalist) | year=1743 | title=A Natural History of Uncommon Birds | place=London | publisher=Printed for the author at the College of Physicians | volume=Part 1 | page=38, Plate 38 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50240660 }}</ref> The [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] is [[South Carolina]].<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1945 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=5 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=134 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480145 }}</ref> The specific epithet ''colubris'' is from the Spanish ''colibrí'' meaning "hummingbird".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=114 }}</ref> The ruby-throated hummingbird is now placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Archilochus (bird)|Archilochus]]'' that was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist [[Ludwig Reichenbach]].<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Reichenbach | first=Ludwig | author-link=Ludwig Reichenbach | year=1854 | title=Aufzählung der Colibris Oder Trochilideen in ihrer wahren natürlichen Verwandtschaft, nebst Schlüssel ihrer Synonymik | journal=Journal für Ornithologie (Supplement) | volume=1 | pages=1–24 [13] | language=German | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13867391 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2021 | title=Hummingbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=30 January 2021 }}</ref> The species is [[monotypic]]: no [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc/>