Cone-billed Tanager (1 Viewer)

[thyoloalethe]

Some comments posted on SACC Proposal #605 (Change linear sequence of species in Sporophila) by Kevin Zimmer indicate that the Cone-billed Tanager (Conothraupis mesoleuca) is likely to belong in Sporophila:

Vocal evidence, bill morphology, plumage pattern and progression, ecology, etc. all point to mesoleuca being a Dolospingus, which now would mean that it is actually a Sporophila, and should be placed immediately following fringilloides in the sequence.

Liam

 

[Richard Klim]

Also, Hilty 2011 (HBW 16):

... new vocal information and knowledge of female plumage (female formerly unknown) indicate that it could be most closely related to White-naped Seedeater (Dolospingus fringilloides) ...

Ridgely & Tudor 2009 (Birds of South America: Passerines):

By voice and ♀ plumage (the latter formerly unknown), the species appears to be most closely related to Dolospingus fringilloides (White-naped Seedeater) and not, as had been supposed, to Conothraupis speculigera (Black-and-white Tanager). We therefore revert to the genus in which the species was originally described, Rhynchothraupis.

 

[Roy'N]

SACC: Merge Oryzoborus and Dolospingus into Sporophila http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop604.htm