New World Warblers (Parulidae)

Brown-capped Whitestart (Myioborus brunniceps) - HBW 15, p. 781

French: Paruline basanée German: Braunkappen-Waldsänger Spanish: Candelita Coronicastaña
Other common names: Brown-capped Redstart

Taxonomy: Setophaga brunniceps d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, 1837, Yungas, Bolivia.
Formerly considered conspecific with M. castaneocapilla, but the two differ in their songs and are widely separated geographically; treatment as separate species supported by recent phylogenetic study, which suggested that close plumage similarities between the two may be due to retention of ancestral traits, rather than to genetic similarity. Monotypic.

Distribution: C Bolivia S on E slope of Andes to NC Argentina; also Sierras de Córdoba (C Argentina), SE of main range.