Buffy-fronted Seedeater

12.5 cm. A large seedeater of bamboo forests. Bill bone colored, Head with broad white front. Long whitish-buff malar streak and postocular streak. Throat whitish. Belly buffy-yellowish. Light olive chest and flanks. Greenish-brown upperparts. Wings with two buff bars and speculum. The female does not show any head markings and is browner above, dull buffy ochre below and whiter on the belly with two buff wingbars. <NThe immature is drab and without a white front. Song a characteristic loud, far carrying and often repeated "jeje jet" 0.4 sec . Forages in middle stratum of bamboo and trees. A bamboo seed specialist. Now on the brink of extinction due to deforestation 2]. Found in extensive forested areas that are interspersed with large areas of Guadua bamboo, forest edge, breaks. Sometimes appears singly or in large to small groups in places where the bamboo bears seeds then disappears some weeks or months later. Throughout. Recorded from the humid coastal forests and serras. In Estado S<C4>o Paulo from<8E>Fazenda Intervales, Ubatuba, Picinguaba a cage bird, Willis and Remold, unpubl. , Iporanga: there are old records from<8E>Mato Dentro, Alto da Serra, Mogi das Cruzes ^40 , Juquia 1961 , Iguape 1977 , Serra Bocaina 1990 , Ilha Do Cardoso ^122 . In Estado Rio de Janeiro found in the<8E>Serra Mantiqueira, Serra dos Org<C4>os, Cachoeira de Macacu a cage bird, December 2004, Remold unpubl. , Nova Friburgo, Cantagalo ^40 , Itaguai, Teresopolis, Tijuca National Park, formerly also<8E>Barra da Tijuca<8E>and <8E>Marambaia, now southern suburbs of Rio de Janeiro ^40 , Desengano State Park near Santos ^2 . <N From 1000 to 1500 meters ^133 . Considered to be vulnerable <10> rare in the Red Data Book ^122 . This species should be considered endangered. It is difficult to understand from where the sometimes quite large groups appear. For more information see ^181 11141 Call. Fazenda Intervales, 10<10>25<10>00. Cloudy, 20<91>C. Primary forest with bamboo. With /Attila phoenicurus, Basileuterus leucoblepharus, Turdus albicollis, Carpornis cucullatus .: 295 Call. Fazenda Intervales, 10<10>25<10>00. Cloudy, 20<91>C. Primary forest with bamboo. With /Saltator similis .: 1609 > Male: 4604 > Female: