Stripe-tailed Yellow Finch (Sicalis citrina) [XC472427]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Carrancas, Carrancas, Minas Gerais, Brazil (song)
Stripe-tailed Yellow Finch (Sicalis citrina) [XC412189]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Cocalzinho de Goi\u00e1s, Cocalzinho de Goi\u00e1s, Goi\u00e1s, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
Molecular-genetic data suggest that genus is most closely related to the "hooded" group of sierra-finches (Black-hooded Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus atriceps), Peruvian Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus punensis), Grey-hooded Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus gayi) and Patagonian Sierra-Finch (Phrygilus patagonicus)). Also, that it belongs within the tanager family (Thraupidae). Subspecies poorly differentiated, and species perhaps better treated as monotypic.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
browni Bangs, 1898 - Western and northern Colombia (Santa Marta, Antioquia, Cauca, Santander, Norte de Santander and Cundinamarca), Venezuela (Sierra de Perijá, coastal mountains, Trujillo, Mt Duida and tepuis of Bolívar and Amazonas) and adjacent tepui region of Guyana, Suriname and northern Brazil (locally east to Amapá).
occidentalis Carriker, 1932 - South-eastern Peru (Puno) and north-western Argentina (Salta, Tucumán and eastern La Rioja).
citrina Pelzeln, 1870 - Eastern Brazil (southern Pará, Goiás and Piauí south to eastern Mato Grosso and Paraná).