Scarlet-throated Tanager (Compsothraupis loricata) [XC6585]
by Marcus Braun from Fazenda Nazaret, estado do Piau\u00ed, Brazil (song)
Scarlet-throated Tanager (Compsothraupis loricata) [XC122953]
by from Boa Nova, Wet Forest, state of Bahia, Brazil (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Sometimes placed in genus Sericossypha, which it closely resembles in size, plumage and certain external morphological characters (e.g. tarsal scutellation, rounded non-operculate nostrils, weak rectal bristles, and bill shape). However, differs primarily in having nostrils exposed (not covered). Retained in its own monotypic genus pending molecular data, but argument for maintaining this seems weak. Behaviour suggests a sluggish Thraupis tanager, and many observers have remarked that it appears remarkably icterid-like in field.