
Tachyphonus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
White-lined Tanager
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Tachyphonus is a genus of birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the white-lined tanager as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek words takhus "fast" and phōneō "to speak".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).