Rough-legged Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias burmeisteri)

Identification & Behavior: ~11.5 cm (4.5 in). The Rough-legged Tyrannulet is mostly yellow olive, yellower on the underparts. The wings are gray with the coverts margined with yellow. The head is gray with a pale and thin superciliary from the base of the culmen over the eye. The mandible is partly yellow. It forages in the canopy and sub-canopy of humid montane forest. It is similar to the Ashy-headed Tyrnnulet but is distinguished by having a gray head, and yellowish mandible. Also, see Sooty-headed Tyrannulet.

Status: The Rough-legged Tyrannulet is rare, local, and poorly known on the east slope of the Andes at elevations ranging between 750-1600 m. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Moscareta de Tarso Rasposo.

Sub-species: Rough-legged Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias burmeisteri leucogonys), (P. L. Sclater and Salvin) 1871.

Meaning of Name: Phyllomyias: Gr. phullon=  leaf and myias=  flycatcher. burmeisteri: In honor of Prof. Dr. Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (1807-1892) German zoologist, entomologist based in Argentina 1861-1892, explorer and collector in Brazil 1850-1852 and Argentina 1857-1860.

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