Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Tawny-crowned Pygmy-tyrant (Euscarthmus meloryphus) - HBW 9, p. 293

French: Tyranneau à huppe fauve German: Graubrust-Zwergtyrann Spanish: Tiranuelo Copetón

Taxonomy: E[uscarthmus] meloryphus Wied, 1831, Vale Fundo, southern Bahia, Brazil.
Genus once placed in the family Formicariidae because of odd tarsal scutellation; affinities within present family uncertain. Three subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

paulus (Bangs, 1899) - NE Colombia and N Venezuela (E to Sucre, S to NE Bolívar).
fulviceps P. L. Sclater, 1871 - W & SE Ecuador (S from Manabí, including coastal islands, also S Zamora-Chinchipe) and W & N Peru (Tumbes S to Lima, also arid Marañón Valley in Cajamarca, Amazonas and La Libertad).
meloryphus Wied, 1831 - E Brazil (Maranhão and Ceará S to Mato Grosso and Rio Grande do Sul), E Peru (E Puno), E Bolivia (S from Pando), N & E Paraguay, NW & NE Argentina (S to Tucumán and, in E, to Córdoba and N Buenos Aires) and Uruguay.