Olive-crowned Crescentchest (Melanopareia maximiliani) [XC54064]
by Peter Boesman from Establecimiento Los Picasos, Tres Marias, Formosa, Argentina (song)
Olive-crowned Crescentchest (Melanopareia maximiliani) [XC2175]
by Nick Athanas from Along road down to the R\u00edo Khatu; near Inquisivi, La Paz, Bolivia (call)
Subspecies
Genus differs considerably from other members of family, though shows certain structural similarities with Teledromas. Subspecies pallida, differing vocally from others, is possibly a separate species. Racial affinities of birds from central Bolivian Yungas in Cochabamba uncertain and tentatively included in subspecies argentina.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
maximiliani (D'Orbigny, 1835) - Yungas of western Bolivia (La Paz).
argentina (Hellmayr, 1907) - Central Bolivia (Yungas of Cochabamba, and from western Santa Cruz) southern on Andean slopes to north-western Argentina (south to western Córdoba and northern San Luis).
pallida Nores & Yzurieta, 1980 - South-eastern Bolivia, and lowland Chaco of western Paraguay and northern Argentina (from eastern Formosa south to Córdoba).