Black-eared Hemispingus

Subspecies (3)

• Sphenopsis melanotis berlepschi

  east slope of the Andes of northern and central Peru (from south of the Marañón to the Urubamba Valley in Cusco)

• Sphenopsis melanotis castaneicollis

  east slope of Andes of southeastern Peru (southeastern Cusco and Puno) and Bolivia (southward to western Santa Cruz)

• Sphenopsis melanotis melanotis

  southern Venezuelan Andes, Andes of Colombia, and east slope of the Andes of Ecuador and northernmost Peru