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• Crested Black Tyrant Knipolegus lophotes

  

  It has a high crest, and a broad white patch shows on the open wings in flight. It launches from a perch to catch flying insects and returns to a favored perch. A separate nest account has records from one area in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

• Cuban Pewee Contopus caribaeus

  This small bird occurs in Cuba and the Bahamas. It uses a range of places with trees, from forest to scrub.

• White-browed Ground Tyrant Muscisaxicola albilora

  The White-browed Ground-tyrant visits the high Andes seasonally and searches for food on the ground. Peruvian records are from April to October.

• Large Elaenia Elaenia spectabilis

  This South American flycatcher has three white wing bars and a weak or absent crest. In Bolivia it is recorded in woodland, second growth and forest edges, where it takes insects and fruit.

• White-throated Tyrannulet Mecocerculus leucophrys

  The White-throated Tyrannulet is a small bird of humid Andean mountain forests. It searches the canopy and the layer below, sometimes joining mixed-species flocks.

• Plumbeous Tyrant Knipolegus cabanisi

  A tyrant flycatcher of forest edges and scrub on the eastern Andean slope. Adult males and females have markedly different plumage.

• 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.

• Yellow-bellied Chat-Tyrant Silvicultrix diadema

  A small Andean bird that searches for insects in pairs in the forest understory. Its yellow eyebrow and yellowish belly stand out.

• Rufous-webbed Bush Tyrant Cnemarchus rufipennis

  The body is gray, with a pale center to the belly and pale undertail coverts. Rufous parts of the wings and tail show clearly in flight. It forages in open scrub and grassland in the high Andes.

• Sulphury Flycatcher Tyrannopsis sulphurea

  This flycatcher uses palm stands in the Amazon region of South America. Its olive-brown upperparts contrast with bright yellow underparts.

• Slaty Elaenia Elaenia strepera

  This tyrant flycatcher breeds in the southern Yungas of Bolivia and forages from the forest mid-levels to the canopy.

• White-throated Kingbird Tyrannus albogularis

  This tyrant flycatcher has a white throat and yellow belly. It is a seasonal visitor to the Peruvian Amazon, using semi-open places and forest edges.

• Peruvian Tyrannulet Zimmerius viridiflavus

  This small tyrant flycatcher lives in Peru's montane forests. Its yellow face, eyebrow, and washed-yellow underparts stand out as it forages high in the forest.

• Sooty-crowned Flycatcher Myiarchus phaeocephalus

  A flycatcher recorded in northwestern Peru and the Marañón basin. PeruAves also lists Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Bolivia.

• La Sagra's Flycatcher Myiarchus sagrae

  This flycatcher is native to the western Caribbean islands. It has pale underparts and a thin bill. Records in Florida are treated as vagrants.

• 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.

• Yellow-bellied Tyrannulet Ornithion semiflavum

  This small tyrannulet uses moist lowland forest and its edges in Central America. Accounts also record it in plantations and gardens, where it feeds mainly on insects.

• Orange-crested Flycatcher Myiophobus phoenicomitra

  This small flycatcher inhabits humid Andean forests. Sighting and photographic records of its subspecies are reported from Colombia's eastern Andean slope.

• Grey-hooded Flycatcher Mionectes rufiventris

  This flycatcher breeds in forests of southeastern Brazil. Records from Minas Gerais describe nests hanging over small streams from roots or fern leaves, and blue-toned plumage in young birds near fledging.

• Yellow-bellied Flycatcher Empidonax flaviventris

  The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is marked by yellowish underparts and a bold eye ring. It catches flying insects in the lower parts of forests.

• Chico's Tyrannulet Zimmerius chicomendesi

  This small tyrannulet is documented in Amazonas State in central Amazonian Brazil. It uses open woodland and scrub on sandy or rocky sand soils.

• Streak-necked Flycatcher Mionectes striaticollis

  The Streak-necked Flycatcher lives in Andean forests. A white mark behind the eye and dark streaks on its yellow underside help identify it; the account reports foraging along forest edges and in second growth.

• Black-and-white Monjita Heteroxolmis dominicana

  This tyrant flycatcher uses wetlands and damp grasslands. A BirdLife regional record lists it at Serranías del Este in eastern Uruguay; males and females differ in plumage.

• Rufous-sided Scrub Tyrant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus

  This small flycatcher is recorded in campo cerrado in northern Bolivia. It searches tall grass and bushes for arthropods, making short sallies to catch them.