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• Pearly-bellied Seedeater Sporophila pileata

  

  This seedeater is recorded in southern and southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Argentina. Adult male plumage ranges from pale pinkish cinnamon to warm ochre-brown. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of S. bouvreuil.

• Nimba Flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae

  This black flycatcher is recorded in Sierra Leone’s Gola Forest National Park. It lives inside primary forest and catches insects in the canopy or from crevices in branches.

• Dark-winged Canastero Asthenes arequipae

  Dark-winged Canastero is an Andean species recognized after a former broad species was split. One bird recorded in Chile had a rufous rump and vent.

• Velvet-browed Brilliant Heliodoxa xanthogonys

  This hummingbird occurs in Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil. The male has a glittering greenish-blue forehead and visits flowers for nectar.

• Blue Mountain Elaenia Elaenia fallax

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in Jamaica’s humid mountain forests. It has olive-brown upperparts and white wing-bars, and eats insects and fruit. Current references treat it separately from the former Greater Antillean Elaenia.

• Black-legged Dacnis Dacnis nigripes

  This small bird lives in moist forests of south-eastern Brazil, and males and females have very different plumage.

• Ochre-throated Foliage-gleaner Automolus ochrolaemus

  This foliage-gleaner ranges from eastern Central America into northern South America and the western Amazon. In current taxonomy it is separate from two closely related species with which it was formerly grouped.

• Tufted Coquette Lophornis ornatus

  This tiny hummingbird has a rufous crest and neck plumes in males; females lack both. It feeds on nectar and small invertebrates in forest edges, open country, gardens, and cultivation.

• Sao Paulo Bristle Tyrant Pogonotriccus paulista

  This small flycatcher has a slender tail. In humid lowland forest in São Paulo state, it moves through the lower and middle levels and forages in mixed-species flocks.

• Black-cowled Saltator Saltator nigriceps

  This saltator ranges from southern Ecuador to northwestern Peru. It occurs in humid montane forest, forest edges, and scrub.

• Great Rufous Woodcreeper Xiphocolaptes major

  This woodcreeper has a large, strong bill. It climbs tree trunks while searching for insects in forests of central South America.

• Viridian Metaltail Metallura williami

  This hummingbird is recorded in the highlands of the Sibundoy area of Colombia. Male and female throat and tail patterns differ, and males defend feeding areas.

• Bahia Wagtail-Tyrant Stigmatura bahiae

  This tyrant flycatcher lives in eastern Brazil's Caatinga. It has a long tail that it frequently wags and spreads. ITIS records Stigmatura bahiae as a valid species under IOC v15.1.

• White-browed Conebill Conirostrum ferrugineiventre

  This small bird occurs on the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It may forage in mixed-species flocks.

• Scaly-throated Leaftosser Sclerurus guatemalensis

  This leaftosser ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to western Colombia and western Ecuador. It inhabits lowland and montane evergreen forest and forages for invertebrates on the ground.

• White-browed Hermit Phaethornis stuarti

  This small hummingbird occurs in foothill forests on the eastern side of the Andes in Peru and Bolivia. Its long, slightly downcurved bill and white eyebrow are distinctive.

• Sooty Tyrannulet Serpophaga nigricans

  This small bird catches insects among riverside and wetland shrubs, moving between perches. Its white crown patch is usually concealed unless it is excited.

• White-sided Flowerpiercer Diglossa albilatera

  This flowerpiercer inhabits Andean forest edges and scrub. Males are black and females brown, with white tufts on the sides in both; juveniles may show little or no white.

• Orange-breasted Thornbird Phacellodomus ferrugineigula

  This ovenbird is recorded from central-northern Uruguay to eastern Brazil. Adults have three central pairs of olive-brown tail feathers, and the reddish-chestnut chin grades into an olive-brown lower belly. A 2008 comparative study treated it as a distinct species from its close relative.

• Chestnut-breasted Coronet Boissonneaua matthewsii

  The Chestnut-breasted Coronet is a mountain hummingbird with a green head and back and chestnut underparts. It feeds from the forest understory into the canopy.

• Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant Anairetes alpinus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia. It moves along outer branches in Polylepis woodland and searches for caterpillars and other insects.

• Lesser Antillean Saltator Saltator albicollis

  The Lesser Antillean Saltator is recorded in the Dominica Botanic Gardens and forest at the base of Morne Bruce. It has dark green upperparts, a white eyebrow, and a white throat.

• Rufous Spinetail Synallaxis unirufa

  This long-tailed ovenbird lives in the understory of humid Andean forests. The account describes four regional forms, so the nominate form's color is distinguished from variation elsewhere.

• Napo Sabrewing Campylopterus villaviscensio

  The Napo Sabrewing is a large hummingbird of cloud forest along the eastern Andes, from southern Colombia to northern Peru. Males have a blue throat-to-chest patch and bright green crown; females have gray underparts and narrow white tail tips.