Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)
Sooty-headed Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias griseiceps) - HBW 9, p. 261
French: Tyranneau nain
German: Rußkappen-Kleintyrann
Spanish: Mosquerito Cabecigrís
Other common names: Crested/Sooty-crested Tyrannulet
Taxonomy: Tyranniscus griseiceps P. L. Sclater and Salvin, 1871, Pallatanga, Chimborazo and Babahoyo, Los Ríos, Ecuador.
Genus as presently constituted may be polyphyletic; objective phylogenetic analysis, using molecular characters as well as anatomical ones, is required in order to define generic limits. Anatomical evidence suggests that present species may be closest to P. fasciatus and P. griseocapilla and that all three perhaps unrelated to others of genus, some or all of which possibly better placed in resurrected genus Tyranniscus. Proposed races cristatus (Panama, N Colombia, N Venezuela), caucae (middle and upper Cauca Valley, in Colombia) and pallidiceps (SE V.. View all taxonomy...
Genus as presently constituted may be polyphyletic; objective phylogenetic analysis, using molecular characters as well as anatomical ones, is required in order to define generic limits. Anatomical evidence suggests that present species may be closest to P. fasciatus and P. griseocapilla and that all three perhaps unrelated to others of genus, some or all of which possibly better placed in resurrected genus Tyranniscus. Proposed races cristatus (Panama, N Colombia, N Venezuela), caucae (middle and upper Cauca Valley, in Colombia) and pallidiceps (SE Venezuela, S Guyana, N Amazonian Brazil, E Peru), described on basis of differences in length and colour of crown feathers and in wing length, considered unwarranted; variation in these characters at least as great among individuals from same regions as it is across huge geographical areas. Monotypic.
Distribution: Locally in E Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, W & E Ecuador, E Peru (S to Ayacucho), and N Brazil (left bank of lower R Amazon).
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Adult on top of a bush.
Locality Chontal, Pichincha Province, Ecuador (ssp griseiceps)
Dusan Brinkhuizen 13 July 2011 38 weeks ago 3.9 -
One ind actively responding to playback.
Locality Rio Claro Reserve, Doradal, Antioquía Department, Colombia (ssp cristatus)
Diego Calderon - COLOMBIA... 1 November 2005 2 years ago 2.3
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Song, answer to playback of its own voice. Locality Yacambú National Park, Lara State, Venezuela
Nacho Areta 2 years ago 4 -
calls in response to playback Locality El Paujil Natural Reserve, Colombia
(Monotypic species)
Bradley Davis 12 June 2007 2 years ago 3
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