2, see text The jacobins are two species of hummingbirds in the genus Florisuga.

The genus Florisuga was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.

The name combines the Latin flos, floris meaning "flower" with sugere meaning "to suck".

[1] The type species is the white-necked jacobin.

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