Black-throated euphonia explained

The black-throated euphonia is a bird in the Fringillidae, or finch family. It is known only by a single specimen in the British Natural History Museum with the type locality given as Rio de Janeiro, and was originally described as Euphonia vittata by Philip Sclater in 1861. It is now thought to be an intrageneric hybrid between the chestnut-bellied euphonia (Euphonia pectoralis) and the orange-bellied euphonia (Euphonia xanthogaster).^[1]

References

Sources

• Book: Handbook of Avian Hybrids of the World . McCarthy, Eugene M. . 2006. Oxford University Press US . 978-0-19-518323-8. 321.
• Web site: A classification of the bird species of South America (Part 11) . 2010-08-28 . South American Classification Committee (SACC) . American Ornithologists' Union . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100626231610/http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline11.html . 2010-06-26 .

Notes and References

1. McCarthy (2006).