McConnell’s Flycatcher (Mionectes macconnelli)

Identification & Behavior: ~13 cm (5.1 in). The McConnel’s Flycatcher has olive head and mantle and rump. The wings have no noticeable wing bars. The base of the lower mandible is pale. The throat is olive and grades to tawny-rufous towards the rest of the underparts. It forages in the understory and midstory of primary Terra Firme forest. It is similar to the closely related Ochre-bellied Flycatcher but is distinguished by having plain wings without wing bars, by being restricted to the southeast Peru, and by being associated with Terra Firme forest.

Status: The McConnel’s Flycatcher is uncommon to rare in central and southeast Peru where it is known to range at elevations of up to 1200 m. It also occurs in Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Mosquerito de McConnell.

Sub-species: McConnell’s Flycatcher (Mionectes macconnelli macconnelli), (C. Chubb), 1919.  lowland tropics of E Venezuela (NE Bolívar), the Guianas and lower Amazonian Brazil (E from R Negro and R Madeira, possibly from Amazonas, S to N Mato Grosso and C Pará), SE Peru (S Ucayali, Madre de Dios; also sight record from R Javari, in NE) and NE Bolivia (Pando, Beni, La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz).
(Mionectes macconnelli peruanus), (Carriker), 1930.  C Peru (Junín).

Meaning of Name: Mionectes: Gr. meionekteo= to have too little, meionektes= small, having suffered a loss. macconnelli: In honor of Frederick Vavasour McConnell (1868-1914) English traveller, collector.

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