Cinnamon Tanager (Schistoclamys ruficapillus)
Cinnamon Tanager, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil, July 2002 - click for larger image Brazil
Brazilian endemic

The Cinnamon Tanager is typically found in cerrado and other types of open country habitat. It is only found in central and eastern Brazil.

They look a bit like a finch with blue-grey upperparts, a black face mask and mainly cinnamon underparts.

Cinnamon Tanager, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil, July 2002 - click for larger image The generic name Schistoclamys is derived from the Greek schistus for "slate" and khlamus meaning "cloak".

There is an illustration in Sick, Plate 25.
Cinnamon Tanager, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil, March 2004 - click for larger image
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