Family: Emberizidae

Volatinia jacarina;
Blue-black Grassquit;
Tiziu.

Tanagra jacarina LINNAEUS 1766

Local form is nominal subspecies, distributed in eastern and central Brazil, Paraguay etc. (Hellmayr 1938).

This is a subadult and/or molting male. See figures in Ridgely and Greenfield 2001, Hilty 2003.

Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina)
29/12/2005; Fazenda Canaã, Pentecoste, Ceará, Brazil. 200 mm f2.8 lens.


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