Arremon

Short description: Genus of birds

Arremon

Pectoral sparrow (Arremon taciturnus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Passeriformes
Family:  | Passerellidae
Genus:  | Arremon
Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tanagra taciturna

Hermann, 1783

Arremon is a genus of neotropical birds in the family Passerellidae. With the exception of the green-striped brushfinch which is endemic to Mexico, all species are found in South America, with a few reaching Central America.

These sparrows are found in lowland woodlands and forests where they usually forage on the ground. They have olive or grey upperparts with a black head. Many have a white line above the eye and some have a black band across the breast.[1]

## Taxonomy

The genus Arremon was erected in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in his Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire to accommodate the pectoral sparrow (Arremon taciturnus).[2] The name is from the Ancient Greek arrhēmōn meaning "silent" or "without speech".[3] The pectoral sparrow had been given the French name "L'Oiseau Silencieux" by the polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779.[4][5]

The genus contains 20 species.[6][7]

Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution

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| Arremon crassirostris | Sooty-faced finch | Costa Rica, Panama and far northwestern Colombia
| Arremon castaneiceps | Olive finch | Colombia, Ecuador and far northern Peru
| Arremon brunneinucha | Chestnut-capped brushfinch | central Mexico to southeastern Peru.
| Arremon virenticeps | Green-striped brushfinch | Mexico
| Arremon atricapillus | Black-headed brushfinch | Colombia and Panama
| Arremon costaricensis | Costa Rican brushfinch | Panama and Costa Rica
| Arremon basilicus | Sierra Nevada brushfinch | northern Colombia
| Arremon perijanus | Perija brushfinch | northeast Colombia and northwest Venezuela
| Arremon phaeopleurus | Caracas brushfinch | Venezuela
| Arremon phygas | Paria brushfinch | Venezuela
| Arremon assimilis | Grey-browed brushfinch | Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and most of Peru.
| Arremon torquatus | White-browed brushfinch | Argentina, Bolivia, and southern Peru
| Arremon aurantiirostris | Orange-billed sparrow | Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama
| Arremon taciturnus | Pectoral sparrow | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
| Arremon franciscanus | São Francisco sparrow | Rio São Francisco and in the states such as Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil
| Arremon semitorquatus | Half-collared sparrow | southeastern Brazil.
| Arremon dorbignii | Stripe-crowned sparrow  | base of the Andes, from eastern Bolivia to northwest Argentina
| Arremon schlegeli | Golden-winged sparrow | Colombia and Venezuela.
| Arremon abeillei | Black-capped sparrow | Ecuador and Peru
| Arremon flavirostris | Saffron-billed sparrow | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay

This genus includes species traditionally placed in Buarremon and Lysurus.[8][9][10]

## References

1. ↑ Ridgely, Robert S.; Tudor, Guy (2009). Birds of South America: Passerines. Helm Field Guides. London: Christopher Helm. p. 641. ISBN 978-1-408-11342-4.
2. ↑ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816) (in French). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire. Paris: Deterville/self. p. 32. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9745205x/f38.image.
3. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. ↑ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1780). "L'Oiseau Silencieux" (in French). Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. 7. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 429–430. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42297222.
5. ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 182. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483417.
6. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (2020). "New World Sparrows, Bush Tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sparrows/. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
7. ↑ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List" (in en-US). https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/updates/species-updates/.
8. ↑ Cadena, C.D.; Klicka, J.; Ricklefs, R.E. (2007). "Evolutionary differentiation in the Neotropical montane region: Molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of Buarremon brush-finches (Aves, Emberizidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44 (3): 993–1016. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.12.012. PMID 17275342.
9. ↑ Cadena, Carlos Daniel; Cuervo, Andrés M. (2010). "Molecules, ecology, morphology, and songs in concert: how many species is Arremon torquatus (Aves: Emberizidae)?". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 99 (1): 152–176. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01333.x.
10. ↑ Donegan, T.M.; Avendaño-C, J.E.; Briceño-L, E.R.; Huertas, B. (September 2007). "Range extensions, taxonomic and ecological notes from Serranía de los Yariguíes, Colombia's new national park". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club 127 (3): 172–212. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259148014.

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