One-colored Becard (Pachyramphus homochrous) [XC86566]
by Niels Krabbe from Reserva Ecologica Manglares-Churute, Guayas, Ecuador (song?)
One-colored Becard (Pachyramphus homochrous) [XC582979]
by Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Loaiza B. from Distrito Metropolitano de Quito, Pichincha, Parroquia Nanegalito, Nueva Granada, Hacienda Los Yumbos, Ecuador (?)
Subspecies
Phylogenetic affinity of present species unknown. Has been suggested that it is closely related to Rose-throated Becard (Pachyramphus aglaiae), Pink-throated Becard (Pachyramphus minor) and Crested Becard (Pachyramphus validus), or even conspecific with Rose-throated Becard (Pachyramphus aglaiae) and Pink-throated Becard (Pachyramphus minor) and all are sometimes combined in a separate genus, Platypsaris, differing from present genus in nest shape and placement, as well as in some vocal and minor morphological characters. Subspecies weakly differentiated, barely distinguishable.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
homochrous Sclater, 1859 - Central and eastern Panama, western Colombia (Pacific slope of western Andes south to southern Chocó at lower R San Juan), western Ecuador (south to western Loja) and north-western Peru (Tumbes, northern Piura).
quimarinus (Meyer de Schauensee, 1950) - North-western Colombia (Sinú Valley of Bolívar east to southern Magdalena and eastern Antioquia).
canescens (Chapman, 1912) - North-eastern Colombia (north-eastern Bolívar, northern Magdalena) and north-western Venezuela (base of Sierra de Perijá and both sides of L Maracaibo).