Buff-banded Mountain Tanager

The buff-banded mountain tanager (Dubusia taeniata), formerly known as the buff-breasted mountain tanager, is a species of Neotropical bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Taxonomy: The buff-banded mountain tanager was formally described in 1840 by the French ornithologist Auguste Boissonneau from a specimen collected near Bogotá in Colombia. He coined the binomial name Tanagra taeniata. The specific epithet is the Latin word for a "head-band". This species is now placed in the genus Dubusia that was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.

The streak-crowned mountain tanager and Carriker´s mountain tanager were previously treated as subspecies of the buff-banded mountain tanager. They are currently recognized as separate species. Before the split the buff-banded mountain tanager was known as the buff-breasted mountain tanager.