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Black-capped Sparrow
Arremon abeillei Lesson, RP, 1844
Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
Black-capped Sparrow, Arremon abeillei, is a passerine of the family Passerellidae that lives in south-west Ecuador and north-west Peru. It was first described by Lesson in 1844. In its range it is a resident bird of the Pacific slope, mainly in dry tropical deciduous forest, gallery forest and scrub, with some use of more humid evergreen forest in Ecuador. It is marked by a mostly black head, a white throat and a broad white stripe running from above the eye to the side of the nape.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
- Breeding range
- South America: sw Ecuador and nw Peru
