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Includes Plain-breasted Brush-Finch

Buarremon brunneinucha

Photographed: Chiriqui, Panama by Cedric K

Photo by NJLarsen
Location: Cerro Punta, Chiriqui, Panama
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[edit] Identification

Subspecies differ mainly in the extent of grey on underparts of the body (less in South America²). The black band below the white throat is absent or at least reduced in some South American subspecies², and in apertus ("Plain-breasted Brush-Finch") from Sierra de Los Tuxtlas, Mexico³.

[edit] Distribution

From Mexico through Central America to Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru in South America.

[edit] Taxonomy

Ten subspecies are recognized¹: brunneinucha, elsae, suttoni, apertus, nigrilatera, macrourus, alleni, frontalis, allinornatus, and inornatus.

Chestnut-capped Brush Finch has in the past been placed in genus Atlapetes and is now sometimes placed in Arremon.

[edit] Habitat

Forest and edge in highlands and foothills.

[edit] Behaviour

Almost exclusively found on the ground.

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
2. Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156
3. Howell & Webb, 1995. A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198540124

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