Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Jamaican Becard (Pachyramphus niger) - HBW 9, p. 461

French: Bécarde de Jamaïque German: Jamaikabekarde Spanish: Anambé Jamaicano

Taxonomy: [Lanius] niger J. F. Gmelin, 1788, Jamaica.
Genus formerly included with Tityra in the Cotingidae, but transferred to present family because of several shared, derived features of the skull and syrinx. Because both genera exhibit similarity to cotingids in many other features, some authors prefer to leave them in that family or to treat them as representing a separate family (Tityridae). Phylogenetic affinity of present species unknown. Monotypic.

Distribution: Jamaica.