Identification
Striking tanager of open woodland and scrub in high elevations of the east slope of the Andes in central and southern Bolivia and extreme NW Argentina; including agricultural lands, and open Polylepis woodland. From Black-and-chestnut Warbling-Finch by white throat and paler underparts in Bolivian. Rufous band across breast distinguishes it from the similar, but gray-breasted Rufous-sided Warbling-Finch.