Family Tanagers (Thraupidae)
Vulnerable
Black-masked Finch (Coryphaspiza melanotis)
Taxonomy
French: Coryphaspize à joues noires German: Schwarzkopftangare Spanish: Cachilo enmascarado
Taxonomy:
Emberizoides melanotis
Temminck
, 1822,Ipanema, São Paulo, Brazil
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Subspecies and Distribution
C. m. marajoara
Sick, 1967 – Marajó I (mouth of R Amazon in Pará), in N Brazil.
C. m. melanotis
(Temminck, 1822) – extreme SE Peru (Madre de Dios), E Bolivia (La Paz and Beni), C & EC Brazil (S Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and NE Paraná E to Minas Gerais and São Paulo), E Paraguay, and NE Argentina (Corrientes).
Records from Rio Grande do Norte#R (Brazil) have not been identified to subspecies.
Descriptive notes
13·5 cm; 15·6–15·8 g. A relatively thickset finch, with rather long and graduated tail, stout thick-based bill with gently curved culmen. Nominate... read more
Voice
Song high-pitched and insect-like, a set of paired notes so closely spaced as to sound like one... read more
Habitat
Tall-grass habitats with scattered low shrubs; requires relatively open grassland, and is absent if... read more
Food and feeding
No information on diet. Foraging on ground under tall grass; sometimes forages in more open areas at edge of grassland or on bare earth.... read more
Breeding
No information. Season probably Sept–Dec.
Movements
Resident.
Status and conservation
VULNERABLE. Uncommon to rare, and very local, and decreasing. Known from three disjunct regions: cerrado of S Brazil, SE Peru, E Bolivia, E Paraguay and N Argentina... read more
Two subspecies recognized.