Cinnamon-tailed Sparrow © the-birds.net

Formerly placed in Aimophila, but molecular-genetic studies indicate that such treatment would make that genus polyphyletic. Various studies suggest that this species is part of a group that includes also Stripe-headed Sparrow (Peucaea ruficauda), Bridled Sparrow (Peucaea mystacalis), Black-chested Sparrow (Peucaea humeralis) and Rufous-winged Sparrow (Peucaea carpalis), this group being sister to a clade containing Cassin's Sparrow (Peucaea cassinii), Bachman's Sparrow (Peucaea aestivalis) and Botteri's Sparrow (Peucaea botterii).

Similar Species
The rufous tail and prominent black moustachial and malar stripes are distinctive within its range. Rusty Sparrow (Aimophila rufescens) is larger with darker ear coverts and more rufous upperparts and wings, Oaxaca Sparrow (Aimophila notosticta) is superficially similar but has grey brown tail, no moustache and has grey brown lesser coverts (not rufous).


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