Bolivian brushfinch
species of bird
The Bolivian brushfinch (Atlapetes rufinucha) is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae, the New World sparrows. It is endemic to Bolivia.
Taxonomy and systematics
The Bolivian brushfinch was formally described in 1837 with the binomial Embernagra rufi-nucha. By the end of the twentieth century it had been reassigned to its present genus Atlapetes and acquired the English name "rufus-naped brushfinch". By then had been assigned many subspecies but it was suspected that most of them deserved to be treated as full species. Early in the twenty-first century all but two of the subspecies were split as species. At that time A. rufinucha was renamed the Bolivian brushfinch to avoid confusion with the pre-split version.
The two subspecies of the Bolivian brushfinch are the nominate A. r. rufinucha (Lafresnaye & D'Orbigny, 1837) and A. r. carrikeri (Bond and Meyer de Schauensee, 1939).
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