Tanagers (Thraupidae)
Black-faced Tanager (Schistochlamys melanopis) - HBW 16, p. 157
French: Tangara à camail
German: Schleiertangare
Spanish: Tangara Carinegra
Taxonomy: T.[anagra] melanopis Latham, 1790, Guiana.
Recent molecular data indicate that present genus, Cissopis and Neothraupis are one another’s closest relatives. Five subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- aterrima Todd, 1912 - Colombia in middle (probably also lower) Cauca Valley, middle and upper Magdalena Valley, locally Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta area, Perija Mts, and E of Andes in llanos (Casanare S to Caquetá and Putumayo and E to Vichada, Guainía and Vaupés), E locally through parts of N & S Venezuela to W Guyana and N Brazil (Cerro Uei-tepui).
- melanopis (Latham, 1790) - E Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and NE Brazil.
- grisea Cory, 1916 - extreme S Ecuador, and E Peru on E slope of Andes (very locally from Moyobamba and Huarandosa S to Marcapata).
- aterrima Todd, 1912 - Colombia in middle (probably also lower) Cauca Valley, middle and upper Magdalena Valley, locally Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta area, Perija Mts, and E of Andes in llanos (Casanare S to Caquetá and Putumayo and E to Vichada, Guainía and Vaupés), E locally through parts of N & S Venezuela to W Guyana and N Brazil (Cerro Uei-tepui).
- melanopis (Latham, 1790) - E Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and NE Brazil.
- grisea Cory, 1916 - extreme S Ecuador, and E Peru on E slope of Andes (very locally from Moyobamba and Huarandosa S to Marcapata).
- olivina (P. L. Sclater, 1865) - extreme SE Peru (Pampas del Heath) and adjacent N Bolivia E to SC Brazil (Mato Grosso).
- amazonica J. T. Zimmer, 1947 - Brazil S of R Amazon E to N Ceará, then S to Mato Grosso, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and up E coast to Pernambuco.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird moving on branches and singing at the end Locality Linhares Biological Reserve, Espirito Santo State, Brazil (ssp amazonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2005 4 years ago 39 sec 4.9 -
A bird perched and preening Locality Linhares Biological Reserve, Espirito Santo State, Brazil (ssp amazonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2005 4 years ago 24 sec 4.3 -
A juvenile foraging. Locality Gran Sabana, Bolívar State, Venezuela (ssp aterrima)
DAVID ASCANIO 1 March 2008 3 years ago 20 sec 2.7
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Adult bird perched
Locality Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela (ssp aterrima)
Mikko Pyhälä 15 March 2008 3 years ago 3.7 -
Bird on a branch
Locality Mariquita, Tolima Department, Colombia (ssp aterrima)
mauricio rueda 30 April 2008 2 years ago 2.8
- No sound recordings available yet
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