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- Cacicus chrysonotus
Includes Southern and Northern Mountain Cacique
Identification
Glossy black with bright yellow wing-coverts and rump. Iris of eye a pale blue. Bill a pale bluish gray. Female a sootier black.
Distribution
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
Taxonomy
Three subspecies recognized which are sometimes split in two species:
- C. c. leucoramphus from the Andes of Colombia to southwest Venezuela and eastern Ecuador - Northern Mountain Cacique (with peruvianus)
- C. c. peruvianus in the Andes of Peru
- C. c. chrysonotus in the Andes of southeast Peru and northwest Bolivia - Southern Mountain Cacique or Bolivian Cacique
Habitat
Canopy of upper subtropical and temperate forest.
