The black-billed streamertail (Trochilus scitulus) is a species of hummingbird in the “emeralds”, tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to eastern Jamaica.
The International Ornithological Committee (IOC), BirdLife International’s Handbook of the Birds of the World, and the Clements taxonomy treat the black-billed streamertail and red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus) as separate species.
However, the North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society treats them as subspecies of the “streamertail” under the binomial T. polytmus.[4][5][6] The two species (or subspecies) interbreed in their narrow contact zone.
The species as defined by the IOC is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
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