Flame-rumped Tanager
The flame-rumped tanager (Ramphocelus flammigerus) is a passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is found from Panama to western Ecuador in semi-open forest and woodland. The subspecies with a yellow rump from the Cauca Valley in Colombia, the lemon-rumped tanager, has sometimes been considered as a separate species. == Taxonomy == The flame-rumped tanager was formally described in 1833 by the English naturalists William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby based on a specimen collected on "some part of the district upon the Columbia River". They placed the species in the genus Ramphopis and coined the binomial name Ramphopis flamigerus where the specific epithet is a misspelling of the Latin word flammigerus meaning "flame-bearing" or "fiery". It is now one of eight species placed in the genus Ramphocelus that was introduced in 1805 by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest. Two subspecies are recognised: R. f. flammigerus (Jardine, W & Selby, PJ, 1833) – western Colombia (middle Cauca Valley southward to Nariño) R. f. icteronotus Bonaparte, CLJL, 1838 – humid lowlands of Panama to western Colombia and western Ecuador The subspecies R. f. icteronotus has sometimes been treated as a separate species, the lemon-rumped tanager, but a study published…
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