Black-bellied Seedeater

sporophila melanogaster

Emberizidae · Emberizine Sparrows

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

The account

Description

10 cm. Male pale gray. Throat and median of belly black. Crissum black. Wings and tail dusky, the wings with a white speculum.

The female is olive above, light buffy below. Wings with white speculum.

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 Black-bellied Seedeater at 1 locality.

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.

Itirapina ITSB

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

Call 'zu-e', 'zi-e', a long 'ziiii', zi. Song complex, starting out with 'zu-e' calls, interspersed with trills (vocalization # 3).

Behavior

Forages in tall grass.

Habitat and status

Migrant in October/November, grassy borders of lakes, natural pastures, swampy depressions.

Distribution

Estado São Paulo, found mostly inland e.g. at Itirapua (¹¹⁹), Itirapina (Remold unpubl.). 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

Call, December 24, 1990. Outside Cambara do Sul, RG. Recorded by David Willis.
Call, song, São Francisco da Paula, RG, LNS 32161, recorded by T. Parker, III.
Calls, song, São Francisco da Paula, RG, LNS 32160, recorded by T. Parker, III.

Recording files on the disc

5643.mp3 Call, December 24, 1990. Outside Cambara do Sul, RG. Recorded by David Willis.
1805.mp3 Call, song, São Francisco da Paula, RG, LNS 32161, recorded by T. Parker, III.
9063.mp3 Calls, song, São Francisco da Paula, RG, LNS 32160, recorded by T. Parker, III.

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	sporophila melanogaster	Black-bellied Seedeater	Emberizidae
CLEMENTS	sporophila melanogaster	Black-bellied Seedeater	Emberizidae
AOU_HM	sporophila melanogaster	Black-bellied Seedeater	Emberizidae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0432
Account identifier: seb_account_0432
Account number on the disc: 432
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative