11 cm. Male steel blue-black above. Head and nape black. Forehead to behind the eye yellow-orange. Throat purplish black. Underparts yellow orange. <NThe female is olive above. Forehead tawny yellow. Nape gray. Primaries edged pale yellow. Grayish buff underparts with yellow-olive sides of the belly.
Call a drawn out descending "deee dee deet", also a "chee-chee": song a combination of call notes with "wheet wheet" whistles, sometimes run together in a continuous warble ^159 . Possible dawn song "wheet wheet wheet wheet whistles the second two whistles lower than the first two , or "wheet wheet wheet wheer", the last whistle lower than the first three ^159 .
Forages in pairs at all heights.
Nest a domed mossy ball with side entrance.
Rather common in secondary and primary forest and edge, parks with old trees.
From central Estado Rio de Janeiro northwards. Observed at<8E>Cachoeira de Macacu, December 2004 ,Remold, unpubl. , Nova Friburgo ^40 . Common in the foothills of the<8E>Serra dos Org<C4>os ^162 . Sea level to 2000 meters
Euphonias are now considered to be Fringillids, not tanagers ^161 .
4776 Calls, song, Mato Grosso, LNS 88826, recorded by C. Marantz.:
7733 > Male: 2657 > Female:
Character status: partial decoder; angle-bracket byte markers are preserved
Recovered structure; field assignment may be heuristic
Structured account sections
Description
11 cm. Male steel blue-black above. Head and nape black. Forehead to behind the eye yellow-orange. Throat purplish black. Underparts yellow orange. <NThe female is olive above. Forehead tawny yellow. Nape gray. Primaries edged pale yellow. Grayish buff underparts with yellow-olive sides of the belly.
Voice
Call a drawn out descending "deee dee deet", also a "chee-chee": song a combination of call notes with "wheet wheet" whistles, sometimes run together in a continuous warble ^159 . Possible dawn song "wheet wheet wheet wheet whistles the second two whistles lower than the first two , or "wheet wheet wheet wheer", the last whistle lower than the first three ^159 .
Behavior
Forages in pairs at all heights.
Breeding
Nest a domed mossy ball with side entrance.
Habitat and status
Rather common in secondary and primary forest and edge, parks with old trees.
Distribution
From central Estado Rio de Janeiro northwards. Observed at<8E>Cachoeira de Macacu, December 2004 ,Remold, unpubl. , Nova Friburgo ^40 . Common in the foothills of the<8E>Serra dos Org<C4>os ^162 . Sea level to 2000 meters
Additional notes
Euphonias are now considered to be Fringillids, not tanagers ^161 .
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative
Release-specific historical evidence — the three releases remain separate; none is canonical
Release history
This work was published as three separate releases: the Disc 3 release first, the Disc 2 release later, and the Disc 1 release in 2011. Differences between them are historical release differences and are never merged.
Disc 3in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 2in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 1 (2011)in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
The account in the Disc 1 (2011) revision
The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.
Historical taxonomy
WORLD
euphonia xanthogaster
Orange-bellied Euphonia
Fringillidae,Euphoniinae
Euphonias
CLEMENTS
euphonia xanthogaster
Orange-bellied Euphonia
Thraupidae
Tanagers,Honeycreepers
AOU_HM
euphonia xanthogaster
Orange-bellied Euphonia
Thraupidae
Tanagers,Honeycreepers
Recordings
4776.mp3
4776 Calls, song, Mato Grosso, LNS 88826, recorded by C. Marantz.
