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Northern Chestnut-tailed Antbird

Sciaphylax castanea

Classification

Class
Aves

The northern chestnut-tailed antbird, or Zimmer's antbird, (Sciaphylax castanea) is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Taxonomy and systematics The northern chestnut-tailed antbird was originally described by the American ornithologist John Zimmer in 1932 as a subspecies of the then chestnut-tailed antbird with the trinomial name Myrmeciza hemimelaena castanea.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 562