Fawn-breasted Tanager

pipraeidea melanonota

Thraupidae · Tanagers, Honeycreepers

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

The account

Description

14 cm. Iris brown. Upper head and nape light blue. Mask and ear covers black. Grayish-blue above. Rump pale blue. Below light buff.

The female has a gray mantle,

The juvenile has a light gray head and gray mantle, and less blue in the tail and wings.

Male Disc 3 · 2006
Female Disc 3 · 2006
Immature Disc 3 · 2006

Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Fawn-breasted Tanager at 17 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.

Barreiro Rico BRSB
Boraceia BOSB
Campos do Jordão CASB
Fazenda Campininha FZSB
Fazenda Intervales FASB
Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
Lencois LESB
Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
Parati PARB
PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
PE Jacupiranga PJSB
Rio de Janeiro RIRB
Serra Bocaina SESB
Serra da Cantareira SRSB
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.

Voice

Song a high 'si si si si si si si si' delivered in 2-3 sec. Sings from the canopy of tall trees.

Behavior

Forages in the canopy of trees, and also in high altitude scrub.

Breeding

Rio Grande do Sul, September and October.

Habitat and status

Not uncommon in high altitude forest and scrub of the serras and other higher altitude areas. In winter found inland in other forest types, such as Eucalyptus, and in the littoral in restinga at sea level.

Distribution

Throughout, regularly at higher altitudes in the breeding season. In Estado São Paulo found at PE Carlos Botelho, PE Jacupiranga, Campos do Jordão (¹¹⁹), Iguape, Iporanga, Alto da Serra, Itararé, Valpariso (⁴⁰). In Estado Rio records from Teresopolis, Nova Friburgo, Cantagalo (⁴⁰). To 2400 meters at Itatiaia.

Taxonomy notes

Pipraeidea is possibly a sister genus to Tangara (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

Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, Tres Picos trail, Itatiaia NP, 11/5/93. Sunny, 25°C. Open stunted forest, 2200 meters.
Song. Fazenda Intervales near Ubatuba, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest.
Picinguaba near Ubatuba, 11/20/98. Sunny, 25°C. Secondary forest near escarpment.
Song?, call. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Some clouds, 25°C. Forest, 1800 meters.

Recording files on the disc

10466.mp3 Song. Serra da Mantiqueira, Tres Picos trail, Itatiaia NP, 11/5/93. Sunny, 25°C. Open stunted forest, 2200 meters.
5885.mp3 Song. Fazenda Intervales near Ubatuba, 11/30/97. Sunny, 27°C. Primary forest.
4840.mp3 Picinguaba near Ubatuba, 11/20/98. Sunny, 25°C. Secondary forest near escarpment.
59.mp3 Song?, call. 10/27/99, Campos do Jordão, road to São Jose dos Alpes. Some clouds, 25°C. Forest, 1800 meters.

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	pipraeidea melanonota	Fawn-breasted Tanager	Thraupidae
CLEMENTS	pipraeidea melanonota	Fawn-breasted Tanager	Thraupidae
AOU_HM	pipraeidea melanonota	Fawn-breasted Tanager	Thraupidae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0396
Account identifier: seb_account_0396
Account number on the disc: 396
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative