Purple-throated Euphonia
euphonia chlorotica
Fringillidae,Euphoniinae · Euphonias
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
10 cm. Male shining blue black above, more purple on the head. Forecrown to behind the eye yellow. Throat black, the rest of underside yellow.
The female is olive above, grayish white below. Sides and crissum greenish yellow.
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Male Disc 3 · 2006 -
Female Disc 3 · 2006
Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.
Where it was recorded
The discs' own checklists select Purple-throated Euphonia at 9 localities.
- Barreiro Rico BRSB
- Fazenda Campininha FZSB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Parati PARB
- Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
- Rio de Janeiro RIRB
- Santa Barbara do Rio Pardo SNSB
- Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
How the map was made
The original program computed each red dot at display time from the locality's coordinates, using its map library and one of five base maps drawn for the screen widths of the day. That library's projection — an oblique rotation of the sphere about the map's own centre, 23.7°S 47.4°W — was read from the program and checked against the graticule the same program drew into the base maps: it reproduces every grid intersection to within about a pixel. The dots here use that projection on the 1280-pixel base map, with the coordinates the discs record. Nothing was placed by hand, no modern map data was used, and a place whose coordinate is incomplete, out of range or beyond the map's edge is listed rather than guessed.
The discs carried location maps only; none shows a distribution or range.
The account, continued
Voice
The typical call is a nasal 'bee-bee' (vocalization # 2), song is a jumble of rapidly delivered whistles and squeaks interspersed with 'bee-bee' (vocalization # 1).
Behavior
Forages in canopy of trees, in high scrub, sometimes in mixed flocks.
Breeding
Nests are domed. Paraguay, November (159).
Habitat and status
Not uncommon in forest of the littoral and dryer inland forests, forest edge, gallery forest, open woodland and scrub.
Distribution
Widely distributed inland, rare at the coast. Found at São Jose de Rio Preto, Bananal (119). To 2000 meters
Taxonomy notes
Euphonias are now considered to be Fringillids, not tanagers (161).
Decoded from the disc's own bytes. Each part is shown under the heading the disc files it under, and the wording, spelling and punctuation are the author's.
Vocalizations
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Calls and song. March 20, 2004. Carajas, Para, sunny, 28°C.
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Calls, March 20, 2004. Carajas, Para. Sunny, 28°C.
Recording files on the disc
- 2810.mp3 Calls and song. March 20, 2004. Carajas, Para, sunny, 28°C.
- 1688.mp3 Calls, March 20, 2004. Carajas, Para. Sunny, 28°C.
Across the three discs
The work was published on three discs — Disc 2 in 2001, Disc 3 in 2006 and Disc 1 in 2011. Where they differ, that is a difference between historical releases, and it is never merged away. The 2011 disc is not treated as correcting the earlier ones.
Which discs list this bird
- Disc 2 · 2001 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list
How that was established
- Disc 2 · 2001
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 3 · 2006
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 1 · 2011
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.
The account in the Disc 1 · 2011 revision
The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.
The work's own taxonomy
The discs carried three parallel name schemes. All three are shown as recovered; none is a modern taxonomy and none has been updated.
| Scheme | Scientific name | English name | Family |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORLD | euphonia chlorotica | Purple-throated Euphonia | Fringillidae,Euphoniinae |
| CLEMENTS | euphonia chlorotica | Purple-throated Euphonia | Thraupidae |
| AOU_HM | euphonia chlorotica | Purple-throated Euphonia | Thraupidae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0349
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0349
- Account number on the disc
- 349
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative