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Doricha
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Doricha is a genus of hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae.
==Taxonomy== The genus Doricha was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate the slender sheartail which is thus the type species. The genus name is that of Rhodopsis a celebrated Ancient Greek courtesan or hetaira.
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