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Chestnut-headed Tanager
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Genus: Pyrrhocoma

Description

If recognized, this genus would contain only one species, the Chestnut-headed Tanager.
A small, slender species exhibiting strong sexual dichromatism.

Taxonomy

If recognized, Pyrrhocoma would be a monotypic genus in the family Thraupidae.
Chestnut-headed Tanager is now included in the genus Thlypopsis.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliott, and D Christie, eds. 2011. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 16: Tanagers to New World Blackbirds. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8496553781

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