Arremon
Genus of birds
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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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| Arremon | |
|---|---|
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| Pectoral sparrow (Arremon taciturnus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Passerellidae |
| Genus: | Arremon Vieillot, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Tanagra taciturna Hermann, 1783 | |
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 22 species.[6]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Arremon crassirostris | Sooty-faced finch | Costa Rica, Panama and far northwestern Colombia |
.jpg) | Arremon castaneiceps | Olive finch | Colombia, Ecuador and far northern Peru |
 | Arremon brunneinucha | Chestnut-capped brushfinch | central Mexico to southeastern Peru. |
 | Arremon virenticeps | Green-striped brushfinch | Mexico |
| Arremon atricapillus | Black-headed brushfinch | Colombia and Panama | |
 | Arremon costaricensis | Costa Rican brushfinch | Panama and Costa Rica |
 | Arremon basilicus | Sierra Nevada brushfinch | northern Colombia |
.jpg) | Arremon perijanus | Perija brushfinch | northeast Colombia and northwest Venezuela |
| Arremon phaeopleurus | Caracas brushfinch | Venezuela | |
| Arremon phygas | Paria brushfinch | Venezuela | |
_(22654443455).jpg) | Arremon assimilis | Grey-browed brushfinch | Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and most of Peru. |
.jpg) | Arremon torquatus | White-browed brushfinch | Argentina, Bolivia, and southern Peru |
 | Arremon aurantiirostris | Orange-billed sparrow | Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama |
 | Arremon taciturnus | Pectoral sparrow | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. |
 | Arremon axillaris | Yellow-mandibled sparrow | northeast Colombia and west Venezuela |
 | Arremon franciscanus | São Francisco sparrow | Rio São Francisco and in the states such as Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil |
 | Arremon semitorquatus | Half-collared sparrow | southeastern Brazil. |
| Arremon dorbignii | Moss-backed sparrow | base of the Andes, from eastern Bolivia to northwest Argentina | |
 | Arremon schlegeli | Golden-winged sparrow | Colombia and Venezuela. |
.jpg) | Arremon abeillei | Black-capped sparrow | southwesr Ecuador and northwest Peru |
| Arremon nigriceps (split from A. abeillei) | Marañón sparrow | northern Peru | |
.jpg) | Arremon flavirostris | Saffron-billed sparrow | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay |
This genus includes species traditionally placed in Buarremon and Lysurus.[7][8][9]
