Rufous-rumped Seedeater (Sporophila hypochroma)
Rufous-rumped Seedeater, Vila Bela de Santíssima Trindade, Mato Grosso, Brazil, March 2003 - click for larger image Vila Bela de Santíssima Trindade, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
March 2003

The Rufous-rumped Seedeater is distributed patchily in south-west Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina and, probably, Paraguay. It is usually in mixed seedeater flocks and this bird was in tall grass beside a roadside marsh.

Rufous-rumped Seedeater, Vila Bela de Santíssima Trindade, Mato Grosso, Brazil, March 2003 - click for larger image It looks very like Tawny-bellied Seedeater Sporophila hypoxantha but the grey on the upperparts is noticeably more bluish and the underparts are a deeper chestnut.

There is an illustration in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 1, Plate 26.

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