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• Rufous-crowned Elaenia Elaenia ruficeps

  

  The Rufous-crowned Elaenia occurs in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. It has a rufous crown patch, pale wing-bars, and a cream underside, and searches foliage for insects while also eating fruit.

• Black-billed Seed Finch Sporophila atrirostris

  This small bird is recorded locally in the eastern Andean foothills. In Peru, it has been found in tall grass along rivers and oxbow lakes, and males and females have different plumage.

• Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis ecaudatus

  The Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant has a grey crown and a very short tail. In Amazonia it forages in the midstory and subcanopy of mature forest and tall second growth.

• Greater Antillean Bullfinch Melopyrrha violacea

  This resident tanager occurs in the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. BirdLife lists records from 0–2,000 m.

• Eared Pygmy Tyrant Myiornis auricularis

  This tiny tyrant flycatcher is reported from Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. It has a black patch behind the eye on a grey head and feeds mostly on insects.

• Tamarugo Conebill Conirostrum tamarugense

  The Tamarugo Conebill occurs in tamarugo woodland and other habitats in northern Chile; records also show movement into southern Peru. The male has a reddish-brown eyebrow and throat, while these colors are paler in the female.

• Pale-tipped Inezia Inezia caudata

  This small bird inhabits wooded areas near water in northern South America. A 2000 study treated the forms now matched to CoL ID 3PP56 as caudata and intermedia, and compared their plumage and ranges.

• Cinereous Warbling Finch Microspingus cinereus

  The Cinereous Warbling Finch is a small bird of Brazil's central Cerrado. Its distribution is sparse and local, and field knowledge remains limited according to the species account.

• Olive-striped Flycatcher Mionectes galbinus

  This entry covers *Mionectes galbinus*, split from the broader *M. olivaceus*. The species account records it in moist lowland and montane forest from Central into northwestern South America.

• Raimondi’s Yellow-Finch Sicalis raimondii

  Raimondi’s Yellow-Finch is endemic to the Peruvian coast, where it occurs in lomas vegetation. It is usually uncommon but may gather in large numbers where food is available.

• Highland Elaenia Elaenia obscura

  The Highland Elaenia inhabits mountain forest and forest edges on the eastern Andes. It has dark olive-brown upperparts and yellowish underparts, and searches the canopy for insects and berries.

• Yellow-tufted Dacnis Dacnis egregia

  A small dacnis of humid Colombian forests and forest edges. Males are bright blue and yellow and forage for insects and fruit in the canopy.

• Yellow Tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola

  This small flycatcher occurs in Central and South America. Its upperparts are olive and its underside yellow, with faint yellow wingbars. It is recorded at forest edges, in secondary woodland, and along gallery forests.

• Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak Parkerthraustes humeralis

  It ranges from eastern Colombia to northern Bolivia and the southwestern Brazilian Amazon. In moist lowland forest it forages mainly in the canopy and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Guianan Tyrannulet Zimmerius acer

  The Guianan Tyrannulet is a small bird of humid lowland forest, foraging high in the canopy north of the Amazon. Its reported range includes eastern Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil. A population south of the river may represent a different, undescribed species.

• Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager Dubusia castaneoventris

  This tanager ranges in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Its blue upperparts contrast with a chestnut belly, and it forages in the canopy of mountain forest.

• Subtropical Doradito Pseudocolopteryx acutipennis

  This small tyrant flycatcher has been recorded in the Argentine Pampas. It is olive above and yellow below; males have narrow, pointed flight feathers.

• Black-winged Saltator Saltator atripennis

  The Black-winged Saltator occurs in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. It has a black head with a bold white eyebrow and throat, a gray belly, and an olive back. A study in northwestern Ecuador described nests placed in dense shrubs.

• Sibilant Sirystes Sirystes sibilator

  The Sibilant Sirystes is a tyrant flycatcher of South American forests. A taxonomic paper describes typical southern birds and paler populations in northern and central Brazil.

• Rusty-collared Seedeater Sporophila collaris

  The Rusty-collared Seedeater lives in wet grasslands and marshes of southern South America. Males have a rusty collar.

• Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus fumifrons

  A tiny, roughly 9 cm tyrant flycatcher. It forages inconspicuously in low bushes, and pendant pouch-like nests have been recorded in French Guiana.

• Black-throated Grosbeak Saltator fuliginosus

  The Black-throated Grosbeak lives in Brazil's eastern Atlantic Forest and nearby regions. It searches for fruit and seeds in the middle forest layer, sometimes in mixed-species flocks.

• Plain-crested Elaenia Elaenia cristata

  This tyrant flycatcher uses open savanna and semi-open areas with scattered trees and shrubs. It has a tall crest; in Peru it is known from localized sites in Cusco and Madre de Dios.

• Sayaca Tanager Thraupis sayaca

  It has a gray body with a blue cast and blue-green tail and wing tips. It uses trees in open areas, parks, and cities and eats fruit, buds, nectar, and flying insects.