Olive-crowned Crescentchest (Melanopareia maximiliani) [XC296363]
by Juha Honkala from Along road down to the R\u00edo Khatu; near Inquisivi, La Paz, Bolivia (call)
Olive-crowned Crescentchest (Melanopareia maximiliani) [XC272984]
by Hugo Caverzasi from Miramar east side, C\u00f3rdoba, Argentina (song)
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).