Red-rumped Warbling-Finch

15 cm. Gray head with long white superciliary, and a yellowish supraloral streak. Olive gray-brown back. Throat and chest buffy yellow. Center of breast buffy. Flanks rufous. Center of belly white. Rump rufous: white outer tail feathers. <NJuveniles have an olive greenish back, a dark streaked belly and no chestnut sides. Song a line of notes " tsip-tsap-tsip -tsip-tsip -tsip... reminiscent of a hummingbird. Call ""tsip" and "zak". Foraging in trees and bushes in small groups, pairs or mixed parties. Common at higher elevations in open forest and bushy areas, forest border. In hill country and in the serras. In Estado Rio de Janeiro found at<8E>Nova Friburgo, Serra dos Org<C4>os, Serra Mantiqueira. In Estado S<C4>o Paulo found at<8E>Itarar<CA>, Serra Bocaina, Nucleo Sta. Virginia, Campos do Jord<C4>o ^119 ^40 . <NUp to 1800 meters ^133 226 Calls, song. Serra da Mantiqueira, 11<10>18<10>98. Sunny, 20<91>C. Elfin cloud forest. With /Basileuterus leucoblepharus .: 3420 Song, Serra Bocaina, S<C4>o Paulo, November 3, 1993, sunny, 25<91>C, mountain scrub, with /Saltator similis, Trogon viridis, Elaenia mesoleuca .: 13682 Calls, Serra Mantiqueira, 11<10>18<10>98, sunny.: 2851 > Adult: 2451 > Juvenile: