Plain-colored Tanager (Tangara inornata) [XC639642]
by Ken Allaire from Altos del Torreon, Altos de Cerro Azul, Eastern Panama, Panama (call)
Plain-colored Tanager (Tangara inornata) [XC83082]
by Hans Matheve from Parque Metropolitano, Panama, Panama (call)
Subspecies
Based on genetic data this species is sister to Turquoise Tanager (Tangara mexicana).
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
rava Wetmore, 1963 - Caribbean slope in Costa Rica (southern from Heredia) and Panama (south to Colón and Coclé).
languens Bangs & Barbour, 1922 - Panama (Caribbean side eastern from Colón and Coclé, and Pacific slope eastern from western Panamá) east to Colombia (Chocó, and southern in Pacific lowlands to northern Valle del Cauca).
inornata (Gould, 1855) - Northern Colombia at northern base of western Andes (Sinú Valley in Antioquia), lower Cauca Valley (in Antioquia), and middle Magdalena Valley (from Antioquia south to Caldas, Santander, Boyacá and Cundinamarca).