Tanagers (Thraupidae)

Buff-breasted Mountain-tanager (Dubusia taeniata) - HBW 16, p. 207

French: Tangara à poitrine fauve German: Silberbrauen-Bergtangare Spanish: Tangara Pechifulva
Other common names: Carriker’s Mountain-tanager (carrikeri)

Taxonomy: Tanagra (Tachyphonus) taeniata Boissonneau, 1840, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia.
Molecular-genetic data indicate that this genus and Delothraupis are sister-taxa, with Calochaetes sister to both. Races have in the past been treated as three separate species. It was recently proposed that S race stictocephala be regarded as a separate species (carrikeri retained with nominate race), on grounds of known vocal and morphological evidence; this merits further examination. Three subspecies currently recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

carrikeri Wetmore, 1946 - Santa Marta Mts, in N Colombia.
taeniata (Boissonneau, 1840) - Andes of Venezuela (Trujillo S to Táchira), all three ranges in Colombia (in W Andes mainly N & S ends, in Antioquia and Cauca), and both slopes in Ecuador and NW Peru (S to Piura and N Cajamarca N of Marañón Valley).
stictocephala Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1894 - E slope of Andes in Peru (from S side of Marañón Valley, in Amazonas, S to N end of Cordillera Vilcanota, in Cuzco).