Buff-breasted mountain tanager explained

The buff-breasted mountain tanager (Dubusia taeniata) is a species of Neotropical bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Taxonomy

The buff-breasted mountain tanager was formally described in 1840 by the French ornithologist Auguste Boissonneau from a specimen collected near Bogotá in Colombia. He coined the binomial name Tanagra taeniata.^[1] The specific epithet is the Latin word for a "head-band".^[2] This species is now placed in the genus Dubusia that was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.^{[3] [4]}

Streak-crowned mountain tanager and Carriker's mountain tanager was previously treated as subspecies of buff-breasted mountain tanager. While they are currently recognized as separate species.^[5]

External links

• Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the buff-breasted mountain tanager

Notes and References

1. Boissonneau . Auguste . Auguste Boissonneau . 1840 . Oiseaux nouveaux de Santa-Fé de Bogota . French . Revue Zoologique . 3 . 66–71 [67] .
2. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 377 .
3. Bonaparte . Charles Lucien . Charles Lucien Bonaparte . 1850 . Sur plusieurs genres nouveaux de Passereaux . French . Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences . 31 . 423–424 [424] .
4. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . July 2020 . Tanagers and allies . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 3 November 2020 .
5. Book: Gill . F . D . Donsker . P . Rasmussen . 2023 . IOC World Bird List (v 13.2) . 10.14344/IOC.ML.13.2 .