Order: Passeriformes | Family: Thraupidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc: Limon, Cajamarca
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc: Cuzco, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc: Cuzco, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc: Cuzco, Peru
Status: The Dull-colored Grassquit is common to uncommon in the coastal lowlands and the Marañon Drainage. It is also rather local along the east slope of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Semillero Pardo.
Sub-species: Dull-colored Grassquit (Asemospiza obscurus pauper) (Berlepsch & Taczanowski, 1884. extreme S Colombia (Nariño) S on W slope of Andes to NW Peru (to La Libertad and Cajamarca) and on E slope in N Peru (S to San Martín and Loreto).
(Asemospiza obscurus obscurus) (d’Orbigny and Lafresnaye), 1837. E slope of C Peru (from San Martin S, patchily, to Puno) and S through Andean slopes of Bolivia to NW Argentina (S to Tucumán); also, probably non-breeding, in E lowlands of Bolivia (Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca), W Paraguay and N Argentina (Chaco).
(Asemospiza obscurus pacificus), (Koepcke), 1963. coastal plain and slope in Peru from Ancash S to Arequipa.
Meaning of Name: Asemospiza: Gr. Asēmos= without distinguishing marks and spiza= finch. . obscura: L. obscurus= dark, dusky, obscure.
Formerly known as Tiaris obscura (2017).
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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.