Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)

Temminck's Seedeater (Sporophila falcirostris) - HBW 16, p. 645

French: Sporophile de Temminck German: Falzschnabelpfäffchen Spanish: Semillero Picudo

Taxonomy: Pyrrhula falcirostris Temminck, 1820, Brazil.
Molecular evidence suggests that genus is closely related to Oryzoborus, which should perhaps be subsumed within it; further, that both genera should be placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae). Monotypic.

Distribution: Extreme E Paraguay and NE Argentina (Misiones) and SE Brazil (from S Bahia S on coastal slope to São Paulo and Paraná.