Yariguies

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Yariguies was an indigenous Colombian tribe that gave their name to a mountainous area they once inhabited in the Andean cloud forest. It has been said that they committed mass suicide instead of submitting to Spanish colonial rule.[1]

The region also provided the name for a newly discovered multi-colored bird. The fist-sized yellow and black Yariguies Brush-finch, topped with an orange plume, was found by a Colombian-English Fundación ProAves team high atop the country's eastern Andean range in Santander province.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Drake, Lauren (10 October). Groups find colorful bird in Colombia. Associated Press. Retrieved on 11 October 2006.
  2. ^ Haines, Lester (11 October). Technicolour Colombian finch declared new species. The Register UK. Retrieved on 11 October 2006.


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