Flame-crested Tanager

tachyphonus cristatus

Thraupidae · Tanagers, Honeycreepers

Disc 2 · 2001 listed
Disc 3 · 2006 listed
Disc 1 · 2011 listed

The account

Description

16.5 cm. Male glossy black. Orange crest from front to back of head. Rump orange buff. Center of throat orange buff. Inner shoulder and underwing linings white.

The female is uniform rufescent brown. Underside ochraceous. Rump rufous. Throat whitish.

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 Flame-crested Tanager at 14 localities.

Historical checklist localities on the disc's own area map — the red dots the original program drew, placed by its recovered projection. Not a range map: it shows the places whose checklists record the bird, nothing more. 1 has no usable coordinate and is listed below unplotted.

Boraceia BOSB
Fazenda Intervales FASB
Ilha do Cardoso ILSB
Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
Marica MRRB
Parati PARB
Pariquera-Abaixo PESB
PE Jacupiranga PJSB
Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
Rio de Janeiro RIRB
Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
Sete Barras STSB
Ubatuba UBSB

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.

Voice

Calls weak 'zet zet'. Dawn song 'sis sik sis sik sis...' similar to Colibri serrirostris (¹¹⁹), day song (?) a high pitched 'zi zi zi sisisisi zeee' (Vocalization # 2). A rather silent bird.

Behavior

Forages in the canopy and subcanopy searching through the outer foliage for fruits and arthropods. Also descends sometimes to eye level. Almost always in mixed flocks.

Breeding

Nest description from Estado Rio de Janeiro (¹⁰⁸).

Habitat and status

Regularly observed in humid forest.

Distribution

Forests of the littoral, found at Bertioga, Guarau, Pariquera Acu, Guaratuba, Cananeia (¹¹⁹), Ubatuba, Iguape, Cubatao, Serra dos Orgãos, Cantagalo, Nova Friburgo(⁴⁰). To 1000 meters

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

Calls, Amapa, Brazil, LNS 113012, recorded by C. Marantz. With Lipaugus vociferans.
Song, calls, Floresta Nacional de Rio Preto, ES, LNS 113275, recorded by C. Marantz. With Lipaugus vociferans.

Recording files on the disc

10755.mp3 Calls, Amapa, Brazil, LNS 113012, recorded by C. Marantz. With Lipaugus vociferans.
4762.mp3 Song, calls, Floresta Nacional de Rio Preto, ES, LNS 113275, recorded by C. Marantz. With Lipaugus vociferans.

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	tachyphonus cristatus	Flame-crested Tanager	Thraupidae
CLEMENTS	tachyphonus cristatus	Flame-crested Tanager	Thraupidae
AOU_HM	tachyphonus cristatus	Flame-crested Tanager	Thraupidae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0383
Account identifier: seb_account_0383
Account number on the disc: 383
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative