Aves, Emberizidae, Coryphospingus pileatus (Wied,1821): a new gathered bird species to Sao Paulo state and evidences of southern geographic expansion in Brazil

Abstract

The Pileated Finch Coryphospingus pileatus has an extensive geographic range that encompasses northeast tocentral, east and part of southeastern regions in Brazil. In southeastern region, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais states weretreated as southern limit of the species distribution. In the present note, we firstly documented the species to São Paulostate, extending to southern its old-believed geographic distribution. We argued several records of C. pileatus in Vale doParaíba region since 40 years ago. We also hypothesized the future geographic expansion of the species in São Paulo state.