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Black-chested Sparrow

Peucaea humeralis(Cabanis, JL, 1851)

English (US) Black-chested Sparrow

The Black-chested Sparrow (Peucaea humeralis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Passerellidae (New World Sparrows) in the order Passeriformes.

Range: arid highlands of southwestern Mexico (Jalisco to western Oaxaca)Range summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Peucaea humeralis
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
English (US)
Black-chested Sparrow
Described by
(Cabanis, JL, 1851)

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Taxonomic history

First described as
Haemophila humeralis
Described by
(Cabanis, JL, 1851)
Type locality
Mexico ; restricted to Tehotepec, Puebla, by Miller, Friedmann, Griscom, and Moore, 1957, Pacific Coast Avifauna (Cooper Ornith. Soc), no. 33, p. 371.
Original description
Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der orithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine 1 p.132

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

See all 138 species of the family Passerellidae