Rufous-fronted Thornbird © flickriver.com

Proposed subspecies fargoi, from Paraguay and southern Brazil (Mato Grosso), described as browner above and with flanks and undertail-coverts more fulvous, but found to be not diagnosable by these characters and treated as synonym of sincipitalis.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

• inornatus (Wied, 1821)   -  North-central Venezuela (south-eastern Falcón, Yaracuy and Carabobo east to Miranda).
• castilloi Phelps, Jr. and Aveledo, 1987   -  Western and central Venezuela (Lara, Portuguesa, Barinas and Apure east to Sucre and Monagas) and north-eastern Colombia (Boyacá, Arauca, Casanare, Vichada, north-eastern Meta).
• peruvianus Hellmayr, 1925   -  Extreme southern Ecuador (southern Zamora-Chinchipe) and northern Peru (upper Marañón Valley in Amazonas, Cajamarca and San Martí­n).
• sincipitalis Cabanis, 1883   -  Eastern Bolivia (Beni, Santa Cruz, Tarija), southern Brazil (southern Mato Grosso), north-central Paraguay and north-western Argentina (Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán).
• specularis Hellmayr, 1925   -  North-eastern Brazil (Pernambuco).
• rufifrons (Wied, 1821)   -  Eastern Brazil (southern Maranhío, southern Piauí­, Bahia, northern Minas Gerais).

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