Vireos (Vireonidae)

Brown-headed Greenlet (Hylophilus brunneiceps) - HBW 15, p. 436

French: Viréon brunâtre German: Braunkopfvireo Spanish: Verdillo Cabecicastaño

Taxonomy: Hylophilus brunneiceps P. L. Sclater, 1866, Ypanema, central Brazil; error = Rio Vaupés, Amazonas, north Brazil.
Race inornatus of H. hypoxanthus, occurring S of R Amazon, was formerly treated as a race of present species. Monotypic.

Distribution: S Venezuela (Amazonas and Bolívar), E Colombia (E Vichada, Guainía and Vaupés) and NW Brazil (R Negro drainage in Roraima and N Amazonas, E to W bank of R Negro near Manaus).