Cinnamon Becard (Pachyramphus cinnamomeus) [XC248191]
by Niels Krabbe from Esmeraldas: 18.5 road km NNW Alto Tambo, Ecuador (song)
Cinnamon Becard (Pachyramphus cinnamomeus) [XC264749]
by Peter Boesman from Pichincha: near Puerto Quito, Ecuador (song, display? 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. Possibly closest to to Chestnut-crowned Becard (Pachyramphus castaneus). They are sometimes treated as a single zoogeographical species, essentially replacing each other geographically, but slight morphological differences between them considered by most authorities sufficient for treatment as distinct species. Variation among subspecies, especially in north-eastern Colombia and north-western Venezuela, requires closer inspection.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
fulvidior Griscom, 1932 - South-eastern Mexico (south-eastern Veracruz and north-eastern Oaxaca east to northern Tabasco and southern Chiapas), northern Guatemala, central and southern Belize, northern Honduras and northern and eastern Nicaragua south to western Panama (western Chiriquí, western Bocas del Toro).
cinnamomeus Lawrence, 1861 - Eastern Panama (Cerro Azul/Jefe, Bayano Valley, and Darién), north-western and western Colombia (south to northern Tolima and southern Antioquia, east to upper Sinu Valley, and east of Andes from Cataatumbo south to western Meta) and western Ecuador (south to north-western Azuay and El Oro).
magdalenae Chapman, 1914 - Northern Colombia (lower Magdalena Valley and northern Sucre, and eastern from lower Sinu Valley) and western Venezuela (southern Maracaibo Basin, north-western Táchira, western Mérida).
badius Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1955 - Western Venezuela (eastern slope of Andes in southern Táchira).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet