Order: Passeriformes | Family: Passerellidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult| Sex: Unknown | Loc. Pariahuanca Road, Junin
Age: Adult| Sex: Unknown | Loc. Pariahuanca Road, Junin
Age: Adult| Sex: Unknown | Loc. Pariahuanca Road, Junin
Age: Adult|Juvenile| Sex: Unknown | Loc. Pariahuanca Road, Junin
Status: Endemic. The Black-spectacled Brush-Finch is uncommon to rare and local in montane scrub and forest edges of the upper Mantaro Valley. It generally ranges at elevations between 2500-3400 m.
Name in Spanish: Matorralero de Anteojos Negros.
Sub-species: Black-spectacled Brush-Finch (Atlapetes melanopsis), Valqui and Fjeldså, 2002.
Meaning of Name: Atlapetes: Gr. myth. Atlas, a Titan king who was changed into a mountain and petes= flier, to fly. melanopsis: Gr. melas, melanos= black and opsis= face.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2016.