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Black-spectacled Brush-Finch

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Atlapetes melanopsis

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[edit] Identification

17.5 cm

  • Pale ochraceous-tawny cap
  • Black forehead
  • Whitish supraloral "horns"
  • Short, indistinct malar stripe
  • Large, black area around eyes
  • Dull greenish-grey upperparts, darker wings and tail
  • Dusky underparts with olivaceous tinge
  • Black bill
  • Dark brownish-red iris
  • Grey feet.

[edit] Distribution

Peru.

[edit] Taxonomy

There is 1 subspecies:

  • A. m. melanopsis

[edit] Habitat

Moist montanes and high-altitude shrubland, dry, open bushy areas, often with dense thickets in ravines, at 2,480-3,400 m.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

  1. BirdLife International

[edit] External Links

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