Black-goggled tanager
| Black-goggled tanager | |
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| Male in São Paulo, Brazil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Trichothraupis Cabanis, 1851 |
| Species: | T. melanops
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| Binomial name | |
| Trichothraupis melanops (Vieillot, 1818)
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The black-goggled tanager (Trichothraupis melanops) is a species of bird in the
IUCN
, the population associated with the Andes is relatively local and uncommon.
The underparts are tawny, the back and head are dull brownish-
olive, and the tail and wings are contrastingly black (the latter with a white speculum that is difficult to see when perched, but conspicuous in flight). The male has a yellow crown patch and a large black patch around the eyes (the black "goggles
" for which the species is named).
Taxonomy
The black-goggled tanager was
monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[6]
Within the
monospecific genus Eucometis.[8]
References
- . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
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- ^ Azara, Félix de (1802). Apuntamientos para la historia natural de los páxaros del Paragüay y Rio de la Plata (in Spanish). Vol. 1. Madrid: Imprenta de la Hija de Ibarra. p. 398, No. 101.
- ^ Cabanis, Jean (1850–1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 23.
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 295.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- PMID 24583021.