slaty brushfinch

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| image = Slaty brushfinch (Atlapetes schistaceus schistaceus) Caldas.jpg

| image_caption = In Colombia

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Atlapetes schistaceus |volume=2016 |page=e.T103774619A95032897 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103774619A95032897.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Atlapetes

| species = schistaceus

| authority = (Boissonneau, 1840)

| synonyms =

| range_map = Atlapetes schistaceus map.svg

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The slaty brushfinch (Atlapetes schistaceus) is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae. It is found in humid Andean forests from western Venezuela, through Colombia, to Ecuador. Taczanowski's brushfinch (A. taczanowskii) of central Peru was formerly treated as a subspecies. Furthermore, the Cuzco brushfinch from south-eastern Peru is sometimes considered a subspecies of the slaty brush finch.