Flavescent Flycatcher (Myiophobus flavicans)

Identification & Behavior: ~12 cm (4.7 in). The Flavescent Flycatcher has olive-brown upperparts and head. The underparts are yellow-brown. The male has a concealed yellow crown patch, which is missing on the female. The bill is black and shows a yellowish loral line and broken eye-ring. The wing coverts are dusky with two rufous wing bars. It forages alone in the under and midstory of humid montane forest. The very similar Unadorned Flycatcher has a complete eyering, has dull yellow underparts, and a bicolored bill. These two species replace each other geographically and may only have limited overlap in the department of Apurimac.

Status: The Flavescent Flycatcher is uncommon in montane forests of the east slope of the Andes at elevations ranging between 1500-2300 m. It also occurs in Co and Ec.

Name in Spanish: Mosquerito Amarillento.

Sub-species: Flavescent Flycatcher (Myiophobus flavicans flavicans) (P. L. Sclater), 1861.  mountains of Colombia (all three ranges) S to E & W Ecuador and N Peru (N of R Marañón).
(Myiophobus flavicans superciliosus), (Taczanowski), 1875.  C Andes of Peru (S to Cuzco).

Meaning of Name: Myiophobus: Gr. muia, muias= fly and phobos= terror, fear, panic. flavicans: L. flavus= golden, yellow, flavicans, flavicantis= becoming yellow, yellowing.

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