| tiny bird, huge mystery-the possibly extinct hooded seedeater (sporophila melanops) is a capuchino with a melanistic cap. | known with certainty solely from a unique male specimen collected in central brazil in the first quarter of the 19th century, the critically endangered (possibly extinct) hooded seedeater sporophila melanops has been one of the great enigmas of neotropical ornithology, arguably the only one of a host of long-lost species from brazil to remain obstinately undiscovered. we reanalysed the morphology of the type specimen, as well as a female specimen postulated to represent the same taxon, and seque ... | 2016 | 27168078 |