The band-tailed hornero (''Furnarius figulus''), also known as wing-banded hornero, is a species of
bird
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in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird
family
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Furnariidae. It is
endemic
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to
Brazil
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.
Taxonomy and systematics
The band-tailed hornero has two subspecies, the
nominate
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In th ...
''F. f. figulus'' (
Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823) and ''F. f. pileatus'' (
Sclater, PL &
Salvin, 1878).
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Description
The band-tailed hornero is long and weighs about . It is a small hornero with a long and nearly straight bill. The sexes' plumages are alike. Adults of the nominate subspecies have a wide white supercilium
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, dingy rufous lores, a dark stripe through the eye, dull rufous ear coverts
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Ear coverts
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, and a tawny buff malar area. Their crown is chestnut-rufous and their back, rump, and uppertail coverts a slightly paler chestnut-rufous. Their tail is also chestnut-rufous, with brownish black tips on the inner webs of its feathers. Their wing coverts and secondaries are rufous and their primaries
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