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The '''booted racket-tails''' are a small group of [[hummingbird]]s in the genus '''''Ocreatus''''' that was long considered to have only one species, ''O. underwoodii''. They are native to [[cloud forest]] edges in the South American [[Andes]] and [[Maritime Andes]]. They are relatively small (even compared to most other hummingbirds) and primarily iridescent green with white or rufous-buff leg-puffs ("boots"). The leg-puffs are more conspicuous in males, which also have a pair of dark bluebluish [[Racket (sports equipment)|racket]]-shaped extensions to the tail.<ref name=Schuchmann2016/>

==Taxonomy==