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Vireos (Vireonidae)

Brown-capped Vireo (Vireo leucophrys) - HBW 15, p. 429

French: Viréo à calotte brune German: Braunkappenvireo Spanish: Vireo Coronipardo
Other common names: Mexican Brown-capped Vireo (N races eleanorae, dubius, amauronotus, strenuus, bulli, palmeri)

Taxonomy: Hylophilus leucophrys Lafresnaye, 1844, Colombia.
Sometimes placed in a separate genus, Melodivireo. May form a superspecies with V. gilvus, and often considered conspecific, but the two differ in plumage and some vocalizations. N races (eleanorae, dubius, amauronotus, strenuus, bulli, palmeri) have been treated as forming a separate species, distinct from that consisting of remaining races (in Costa Rica, Panama and South America). Proposed races chiriquensis (described from Boquete, at Volcán de Chiriquí, in Panama) and disjunctus (from Antioquia, in Colombia) bo.. View all taxonomy...

Taxonomy: Hylophilus leucophrys Lafresnaye, 1844, Colombia.
Sometimes placed in a separate genus, Melodivireo. May form a superspecies with V. gilvus, and often considered conspecific, but the two differ in plumage and some vocalizations. N races (eleanorae, dubius, amauronotus, strenuus, bulli, palmeri) have been treated as forming a separate species, distinct from that consisting of remaining races (in Costa Rica, Panama and South America). Proposed races chiriquensis (described from Boquete, at Volcán de Chiriquí, in Panama) and disjunctus (from Antioquia, in Colombia) both treated as synonyms of dissors. Thirteen subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • eleanorae Sutton & Burleigh, 1940 - NE Mexico (SW Tamaulipas S to N Hidalgo).
  • dubius ( A. R. Phillips, 1991) - EC Mexico (near Ciudad Victoria, in Tamaulipas).
  • amauronotus Salvin & Godman, 1881 - SE Mexico (NE Puebla E to WC Veracruz).

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  • eleanorae Sutton & Burleigh, 1940 - NE Mexico (SW Tamaulipas S to N Hidalgo).
  • dubius ( A. R. Phillips, 1991) - EC Mexico (near Ciudad Victoria, in Tamaulipas).
  • amauronotus Salvin & Godman, 1881 - SE Mexico (NE Puebla E to WC Veracruz).
  • strenuus Nelson, 1900 - S Mexico (N Chiapas).
  • bulli J. S. Rowley, 1968 - SW Mexico (SE Oaxaca).
  • palmeri ( A. R. Phillips, 1991) - mountains of Honduras, possibly also N El Salvador.
  • costaricensis ( Ridgway, 1903) - C Costa Rica (Cordillera de Tilarán).
  • dissors J. T. Zimmer, 1941 - S Costa Rica, W & E Panama, and NW Colombia (W & C Andes, S on W slope to W Nariño).
  • mirandae E. J. O. Hartert, 1917 - N Colombia (Santa Marta Mts) and NW Venezuela (Zulia, and Táchira E to Sucre).
  • josephae P. L. Sclater, 1859 - SW Colombia (C Andes in Nariño) and W Ecuador.
  • leucophrys ( Lafresnaye, 1844) - E Andes from Colombia S to C Peru.
  • maranonicus J. T. Zimmer, 1941 - N Peru (both slopes of W Andes, W of R Marañón).
  • laetissimus ( Todd, 1924) - SE Peru and N Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba).
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