Rufous-crowned Scrub-Tyrant (Euscarthmus meloryphus)

Identification & Behavior: ~10.4 cm (4 in). The Rufous-crowned Scrub-Tyrant has brown upperparts with two poorly defined pale wing bars. It has tawny-brown sides of the head and semi-concealed tawny-rufous crown. The breast and belly are pale. It has a variable amount of yellow in the vent area and a relatively long tail. It forages in scrub and the understory of semi-open woodlands. In SE Peru, it is similar to the Southern Beardless Tyrannulet but is distinguished by having a round head with no prominent crest and by having a warmer brown face and tawny-rufous crown. Also, see Mouse-colored Tyrannulet. Formerly considered conspecific with Fulvous-headed Scrub-Tyrant.

Status:  The Rufous-crowned Scrub-Tyrant is an Austral migrants to extreme SE Peru. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Tirano-Pigmeo de Corona Leonada.

Sub-species: Rufous-crowned Scrub-Tyrant (Euscarthmus meloryphus), Wied, 1831.

Meaning of Name: Euscarthmus: Gr. eu= good and skarthmos= leaping, euskarthmos= high-leaping. meloryphus: Gr. melo= ruddy, koruphe= crown of the head.

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