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Location: Linhares Reserva Natural da Vale do Rio Doce, ES, Brazil
Subspecies brasiliensis

Caryothraustes canadensis

Distribution

This species ranges from Brazil north to extreme eastern Panama.

Taxonomy

Four subspecies are recognized in this species¹: simulans, canadensis, frontalis, and brasiliensis. Subspecies simulans which occurs in Darien (eastern Panama) isolated from other subspecies of this species as well as from Black-faced Grosbeak is sometimes included in Black-faced Grosbeak; however, simulans shares a yellow (not grey) underside with the rest of Yellow-green Grosbeak while Black-faced Grosbeak has a grey underside.

Black-faced Grosbeak was in the past included in Yellow-green Grosbeak.

Habitat

Moist lowland forests.

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

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