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Description

The White-throated Seedeater(Golinho) is a passerine bird in the family Thraupidae. It is also known as brejal, patativa (Pernambuco, Ceará), golinho or golado (Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Paraíba, Piauí), white-throat collar and collar. Like all the other members of the genus Sporophila, it can be called "pope-grass" accompanied by some other adjective. Spore is seed and phila comes from phyllo, which means affinity. They would really be the ones "who have an affinity for seeds" or "pope-grass. Measures about 10.5 cm. of lenght. The male has a blackened head and the rest of the upper parts are gray, the white throat, whose tonality extends upwards, forming an incomplete collar at the nape of the neck; the female and the young are gray-brown in the upper parts and yellow-white in the lower parts. Male puppies acquire adult plumage at about 18 months of age. Its song is a fine, persistent chirp, very varied and fast.