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
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-chested Sparrow
- Described by
- (Cabanis, JL, 1851)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic 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.
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