Olive-faced flatbill

Olive-faced flatbill
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Tyrannidae
Genus: Tolmomyias
Species:
T. viridiceps
Binomial name
Tolmomyias viridiceps
Synonyms

Rhynchocyclus viridiceps

The olive-faced flatbill or olive-faced flycatcher (Tolmomyias viridiceps) is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found in riparian woodland and at the forest edge in western Amazonia.

The olive-faced flatbill was described by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1873 from a specimen collected in Pebas, Peru. They coined the binomial name Rhynchocyclus viridiceps.[2] It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the ochre-lored flatbill (Tolmomyias flaviventris) but is now considered as a separate species based primarily on its very different vocalization.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Olive-faced Flatbill Tolmomyias viridiceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  2. ^ Sclater, P.L.; Salvin, O. (1873). "On the birds of eastern Peru". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 252–311 [280].
  3. ^ Ridgely, Robert S.; Tudor, Guy (2009). Birds of South America: Passerines. Helm Field Guides. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 442, 691. ISBN 978-1-408-11342-4.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Tyrant flycatchers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 June 2019.


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