Lemon-chested Greenlet (Hylophilus thoracicus)
About the Lemon-chested Greenlet
The lemon-chested greenlet (Hylophilus thoracicus) is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae, the vireos, greenlets, and shrike-babblers. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The lemon-chested greenlet's taxonomy is unsettled. The IOC, the Clements taxonomy, AviList, and the independent South American Classification Committee assign it these three subspecies: H. t. aemulus (Hellmayr, 1920) H. t. griseiventris Berlepsch & Hartert, EJO, 1902 H. t. thoracicus Temminck, 1822 However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) treats H. t. thoracicus as the Rio de Janeiro greenlet and, confusingly, the other two as the lemon-chested greenlet. This article follows the IOC et al. one species, three-subspecies, model.
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