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Arremon
Arremon taciturnus Pectoral Sparrow (male); Rio Formoso, Pernambuco, Brazil.jpg
Pectoral sparrow (Arremon taciturnus)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passerellidae
Genus: Arremon
Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tanagra taciturna
Hermann, 1783

Arremon is a genus of neotropical birds in the family Passerellidae. With the exception of the green-striped brushfinch which is endemic to Mexico, all species are found in South America, with a few reaching Central America.

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These sparrows are found in lowland woodlands and forests where they usually forage on the ground. They have olive or grey upperparts with a black head. Many have a white line above the eye and some have a black band across the breast. [1]

Taxonomy

The genus Arremon was erected in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in his Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire to accommodate the pectoral sparrow (Arremon taciturnus). [2] The name is from the Ancient Greek arrhēmōn meaning "silent" or "without speech". [3] The pectoral sparrow had been given the French name "L'Oiseau Silencieux" by the polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779. [4] [5]

The genus contains 20 species. [6] [7]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Arremon crassirostris - Sooty-faced Finch - singing.jpg Arremon crassirostris Sooty-faced finch Costa Rica, Panama and far northwestern Colombia
Olive Finch - Colombia S4E3362 (23283455182).jpg Arremon castaneiceps Olive finch Colombia, Ecuador and far northern Peru
Arremon brunneinucha Santa Elena.JPG Arremon brunneinucha Chestnut-capped brushfinch central Mexico to southeastern Peru.
Arremon virenticeps, Zacatecas, Mexico.jpg Arremon virenticeps Green-striped brushfinch Mexico
Arremon atricapillus Black-headed brushfinch Colombia and Panama
Arremon costaricensis - Costa Rican Brushfinch.jpg Arremon costaricensis Costa Rican brushfinch Panama and Costa Rica
Arremon basilicus.jpg Arremon basilicus Sierra Nevada brushfinch northern Colombia
Arremon perijanus (15449181957).jpg Arremon perijanus Perija brushfinch northeast Colombia and northwest Venezuela
Arremon phaeopleurus Caracas brushfinch Venezuela
Arremon phygas Paria brushfinch Venezuela
Buarremon assimilis (Atlapetes listado) (22654443455).jpg Arremon assimilis Grey-browed brushfinch Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and most of Peru.
Stripe-headed Brush-Finch - Colombia S4E1795 (23023941159).jpg Arremon torquatus White-browed brushfinch Argentina, Bolivia, and southern Peru
Orange-billed Sparrow.jpg Arremon aurantiirostris Orange-billed sparrow Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama
Arremon taciturnus.jpg Arremon taciturnus Pectoral sparrow Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Arremon franciscanus Sao Francisco Sparrow; Lapa Grande State Park, Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil.jpg Arremon franciscanus São Francisco sparrow Rio São Francisco and in the states such as Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil
Arremon semitorquatus -Piraju, Sao Paulo, Brazil-8.jpg Arremon semitorquatus Half-collared sparrow southeastern Brazil.
Arremon dorbignii Stripe-crowned sparrow base of the Andes, from eastern Bolivia to northwest Argentina
Arremon schlegeli 291684986.jpg Arremon schlegeli Golden-winged sparrow Colombia and Venezuela.
Black-capped Sparrow - South Ecuador S4E9265 (23309731381).jpg Arremon abeillei Black-capped sparrow Ecuador and Peru
TICO-TICO-DE-BICO-AMARELO ( Arremon flavirostris ).jpg Arremon flavirostris Saffron-billed sparrow Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay

This genus includes species traditionally placed in Buarremon and Lysurus. [8] [9] [10]

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