Arremon
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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{{Redirect|Lysurus|the genus of fungi|Lysurus (fungus)}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Arremon
| image =Arremon taciturnus Pectoral Sparrow (male); Rio Formoso, Pernambuco, Brazil.jpg
| image_caption = Pectoral sparrow (Arremon taciturnus)
| taxon = Arremon
| authority = Vieillot, 1816
| type_species = Tanagra taciturna
| type_species_authority = 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.{{ cite book | last1=Ridgely | first1=Robert S. | last2=Tudor | first2=Guy | year=2009 | title=Birds of South America: Passerines | series=Helm Field Guides | place=London | publisher=Christopher Helm | isbn=978-1-408-11342-4 | page=641 }}
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).{{cite book | last=Vieillot | first=Louis Pierre | author-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1816 | title=Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire | publisher=Deterville/self | location=Paris | page=32 | language=French| url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9745205x/f38.image }} The name is from the Ancient Greek arrhēmōn meaning "silent" or "without speech".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=56 }} The pectoral sparrow had been given the French name "L'Oiseau Silencieux" by the polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779.{{ cite book | last=Buffon | first=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | year=1780 | title=Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux | volume=7 | place=Paris | publisher=De l'Imprimerie Royale | pages=429–430 | chapter=L'Oiseau Silencieux | language=French | chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42297222 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1970 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=13 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=182 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483417 }}
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| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Arremon crassirostris | Sooty-faced finch | Costa Rica, Panama and far northwestern Colombia |
| 120px | Arremon castaneiceps | Olive finch | Colombia, Ecuador and far northern Peru |
| 120px | Arremon brunneinucha | Chestnut-capped brushfinch | central Mexico to southeastern Peru. |
| 120px | Arremon virenticeps | Green-striped brushfinch | Mexico |
| Arremon atricapillus | Black-headed brushfinch | Colombia and Panama | |
| 120px | Arremon costaricensis | Costa Rican brushfinch | Panama and Costa Rica |
| 120px | Arremon basilicus | Sierra Nevada brushfinch | northern Colombia |
| 120px | Arremon perijanus | Perija brushfinch | northeast Colombia and northwest Venezuela |
| Arremon phaeopleurus | Caracas brushfinch | Venezuela | |
| Arremon phygas | Paria brushfinch | Venezuela | |
| 120px | Arremon assimilis | Grey-browed brushfinch | Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and most of Peru. |
| 120px | Arremon torquatus | White-browed brushfinch | Argentina, Bolivia, and southern Peru |
| 120px | Arremon aurantiirostris | Orange-billed sparrow | Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama |
| 120px | Arremon taciturnus | Pectoral sparrow | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. |
| 120px | Arremon axillaris | Yellow-mandibled sparrow | northeast Colombia and west Venezuela |
| 120px | Arremon franciscanus | São Francisco sparrow | Rio São Francisco and in the states such as Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| 120px | Arremon semitorquatus | Half-collared sparrow | southeastern Brazil. |
| |Arremon dorbignii
|base of the Andes, from eastern Bolivia to northwest Argentina | |||
| 120px | Arremon schlegeli | Golden-winged sparrow | Colombia and Venezuela. |
| 120px | Arremon abeillei | Black-capped sparrow | southwesr Ecuador and northwest Peru |
| Arremon nigriceps (split from A. abeillei) | Marañón sparrow | northern Peru | |
| 120px | Arremon flavirostris | Saffron-billed sparrow | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay |
This genus includes species traditionally placed in Buarremon and Lysurus.{{Cite journal | last1=Cadena | first1=C.D. | last2=Klicka | first2=J. | last3=Ricklefs | first3=R.E. | date=2007 | title=Evolutionary differentiation in the Neotropical montane region: Molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of Buarremon brush-finches (Aves, Emberizidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=44 | issue=3 | pages=993–1016 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2006.12.012| pmid=17275342 | bibcode=2007MolPE..44..993C }}{{Cite journal | last1=Cadena | first1=Carlos Daniel | last2=Cuervo | first2=Andrés M. | date=2010 | title=Molecules, ecology, morphology, and songs in concert: how many species is Arremon torquatus (Aves: Emberizidae)? | journal=Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume=99 | issue=1 | pages=152–176 | doi=10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01333.x| doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal | last1=Donegan | first1=T.M. | last2=Avendaño-C | first2=J.E. | last3=Briceño-L | first3=E.R. | last4=Huertas | first4=B. |journal = Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club| volume=127 | issue=3| date=September 2007 | title=Range extensions, taxonomic and ecological notes from Serranía de los Yariguíes, Colombia's new national park | pages=172–212 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259148014 }}
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