Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Cinereous Mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) - HBW 9, p. 446

French: Aulia cendré German: Grauer Tropfenflügeltyrann Spanish: Plañidera Cenicienta

Taxonomy: Ampelis hypopyrra Vieillot, 1817, La Guyane = Cayenne.
Genus often placed in Cotingidae, and possibly better treated in that family. Scientific name has often been misspelled as “hypopyrrha”. Forms a superspecies with L. rufescens. Monotypic.

Distribution: Entire Amazon-Orinoco Basin, including SE Colombia, S & E Venezuela (N to SE Sucre), the Guianas, E Ecuador, E Peru, N Bolivia, and Amazonian Brazil; isolated population in SE Bahia and N Espírito Santo, in coastal E Brazil.

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