Lessonia (bird)

Lessonia is a genus of South American birds in the tyrant flycatcher family, found near freshwater lakes and saline marshes.

Lessonia
Andean negrito (Lessonia oreas)
Austral negrito (Lessonia rufa)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Lessonia Swainson, 1832
Type species
Anthus sordidus[1] = Alauda rufa Lesson, 1830

The genus was erected by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1832 with the Austral negrito as the type species.^[2][3] The genus name was chosen to honour the French Navy surgeon and naturalist René Lesson (1794–1849).^[4]

Species

The genus contains two species:^[5]

Male	Female	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
		Lessonia oreas	Andean negrito	central Peru south into western Bolivia, down into north eastern Chile and northern Argentina
		Lessonia rufa	Austral negrito	Argentina and Chile, migrating north as far as Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay

References

1. "Tyrannidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
2. Swainson, William; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America. Vol. Part 2. The Birds. London: J. Murray. p. 490. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume did not appear until 1832.
3. Traylor, Melvin A. Jr, ed. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 173.
4. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Lessonia". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.