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Maranon Sparrow
Arremon nigriceps Taczanowski, 1880
Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
Maranon Sparrow, Arremon nigriceps, is a passerine of the New World sparrow family found in north-central Peru. It was first described by Taczanowski in 1880. The species is tied to the upper Marañón basin, where it lives in dry tropical deciduous forest and gallery forest, and in some places in wetter evergreen forest. Its range reaches up to 1,800 m. Adults show a black head, white throat and a broad white stripe from the eye to the nape, with olive-green upperparts and tail.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
- Breeding range
- South America: nc Peru
