Red Pileated Finch (Coryphospingus cucullatus) [XC361105]
by Bernabe Lopez-Lanus from Salta: Vaqueros at R\u00edo Los Yacones, Argentina (song)
Red Pileated Finch (Coryphospingus cucullatus) [XC47727]
by Myriam Velazquez from Bajos Submeridionales, San Cristobal, Santa Fe, Argentina (song)
Subspecies
Molecular data strongly indicate that genus belongs in tanager family (Thraupidae) and is sister to a group containing Lanio, Fulvous-crested Tanager (Tachyphonus surinamus), Trichothraupis and Eucometis. Sometimes considered conspecific with Pileated Finch (Coryphospingus pileatus). Hybrids between the two reported in Brazil. Subspecies fargoi slightly more greyish in south of range than in north, and southern population described as a separate subspecies, araguira, but differences considered trivial.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
cucullatus (Müller, 1776) - Guyana, Suriname and north-eastern Brazil (eastern Pará).
fargoi Brodkorb, 1938 - Extreme southern Ecuador (southern Zamora-Chinchipe), north-western and south-eastern Peru (upper Marañón Valley and Urubamba Valley), Bolivia (La Paz, southern Beni, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca and Tarija), western Paraguay and northern Argentina (south to La Rioja, San Luis, La Pampa and northern Buenos Aires).
rubescens (Swainson, 1825) - Central and southern Brazil (southern from southern Mato Grosso, southern Goiás, western Minas Gerais and Sío Paulo), eastern Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina east of R Paraná, and Uruguay.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet