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Black-backed Bush Tanager
Urothraupis stolzmanni Taczanowski & Berlepsch, 1885
Thraupidae — Tanagers & Allies
Black-backed Bush Tanager, Urothraupis stolzmanni, is a tanager of high Andean Colombia and Ecuador, where it occurs in subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is the only species placed in Urothraupis. The bird was described in 1885 by Taczanowski and Berlepsch from material gathered on the eastern side of Tungurahua in central Ecuador. Its scientific name honours the collector Sztolcman, and no subspecies are recognised.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae — Tanagers & Allies
- Breeding range
- South America: high Andean Colombia and Ecuador
