Pirre Bush-Tanager

About the Pirre Bush-Tanager

The Pirre chlorospingus (Chlorospingus inornatus) or Pirre bush tanager is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae, the New World sparrows. It is endemic to Panama. The Pirre chlorospingus was formally described by Edward William Nelson in 1912 with the binomial Hylospingus inornatus and the English name "Mount Pirri Tanager". Nelson erected the genus for this species and noted the strong similarity of Hylospingus to the existing genus Chlorospingus. Genus Hylospingus was later subsumed into Chlorospingus. During the twentieth century and into the twenty-first the Chlorospingus species were members of the family Thraupidae, the "true" tanagers, though their position within the family were uncertain. Based on studies published in 2002, 2003, and 2007, beginning in 2010 taxonomic systems transferred Chlorospingus to its present sparrow family. The Chlorospingus species were originally called "bush tanagers" or "bush-tanagers". Beginning in 2013 systems began changing the English name of the members of the genus to "chlorospingus" because they were no longer considered tanagers.

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