Barred Becard (Pachyramphus versicolor) [XC690206]
by Mauricio Cuellar Ramirez (@Birding.travel) from km 50+733 V\u00eda Antigua Florencia, Caquet\u00e1, Colombia (song)
Barred Becard (Pachyramphus versicolor) [XC275484]
by Jean-Esteban Liberek from Pichincha: 1-4 km SSW of Tandayapa, Ecuador (song)
Subspecies
Genus formerly included with Tityra in the Cotingidae, but transferred to present family because of several shared, derived features of the skull and syrinx. Because both genera exhibit similarity to cotingids in many other features, some authors prefer to leave them in that family or to treat them as representing a separate family (Tityridae). Phylogenetic affinity of present species unknown. Variation among subspecies negligible and it has been suggested that meridionalis should perhaps be merged with nominate.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
costaricensis Bangs, 1908 - Costa Rica and western Panama (Chiriquí).
versicolor (Hartlaub, 1843) - Sierra de Perijá, and Andes from south-western Venezuela (southern from south-eastern Lara) and Colombia (south of Valle in western Andes, southern from Norte de Santander in central range, and from south-eastern Santander and north-eastern Boyacá southern on both slopes of eastern cordillera) south to central and south-eastern Ecuador (southern on western slope to Chimborazo and on eastern slope to Zamora-Chinchipe).
meridionalis Carriker, 1934 - South-eastern Ecuador (Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (northern Amazonas south to northern Puno, including extension on Pacific slope in south-western Cajamarca) and north-western Bolivia (La Paz, Cochabamba).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet