Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest and shrubland, subtropical and tropical moist montane forest and high altitude shrubland. From 1,500 - 3,000 m, occasionally 950 - 3,500 m.
laubmanni Hellmayr & Seilern, 1915 - Northern Colombia (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta), Sierra de Perijá, and northern Venezuela (discontinuously in Lara, Aragua, Distrito Federal and Miranda. Also southern Sucre and northern Monagas).
chrysogaster (Lesson, 1832) - Andes from south-western Colombia (Nariño) to southern Peru (Arequipa and Puno). Also coastal northern and central Peru.