Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant (Uromyias agraphia)

Identification & Behavior: ~13 cm (5.1 in). The Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant has brownish upperparts without wing bars. It has a narrow black crown and crest bordered by a broad gray superciliary. The head and most of the underparts are faintly mottled with gray and dusky. It forages in humid montane forests often accompanying mixed-species flocks and also mono-specific flocks. It is often associated with Chusquea bamboo. It is superficially similar to the Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant but is distinguished by lacking the white wing bars, by having paler underparts, and by not being associated with Polylepis woodlands.

Status: Endemic. The Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant is uncommon to rare in humid montane forests of the east slope of the Andes at elevations ranging between 2600-3450 m.

Name in Spanish: Torito Llano.

Sub-species: Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant (Uromyias agraphia plengei), (Schulenberg and Graham), 1981.  N Peru (Cordillera Colán, in C Amazonas).
(Uromyias agraphia squamiger), O’Neill and T. A. Parker, 1976.  C Peru from E La Libertad S to Huánuco.
(Uromyias agraphia agraphia), (Chapman), 1919.  upper Urubamba Valley (Cordillera Vilcanota), in Cuzco (SE Peru).

Meaning of Name: Uromyias: Gr. oura= tail and L. muias= fly, myias= flycatcher. agraphia: Gr. a= negative prefix and graphos= lines, writings; agraphos= unwritten.

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