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Hooded Tanager

Nemosia pileata pileata

Classification

Class
Aves

The hooded tanager (Nemosia pileata) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found in every mainland South American country except Chile, Ecuador, and Uruguay. Taxonomy and systematics The hooded tanager was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 3