Rusty-crowned Ground Sparrow (Melozone kieneri)
About the Rusty-crowned Ground Sparrow
The rusty-crowned ground sparrow (Melozone kieneri) is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae, the New World sparrows. It is endemic to Mexico. The rusty-crowned ground sparrow was formally described in 1850 with the binomial Pyrgisoma kieneri. It was later reassigned to its current genus Melozone that had also been described in 1850. The rusty-crowned ground sparrow has three subspecies, the nominate M. k. kieneri (Bonaparte, 1850), M. k. grisior Van Rossem, 1933, and M. k. rubricata (Cabanis, 1851).
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Listed as recorded in Mexico in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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