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• White-bearded Flycatcher Phelpsia inornata

  

  This flycatcher appears in records from Venezuela. A female described in a 1937 field record had a deep-yellow underside and was noted at small groves and near lagoons. The paper uses an earlier taxonomic name.

• Rusty-browed Warbling Finch Microspingus erythrophrys

  This small finch occurs along montane forest edges and in alder groves in Bolivia and Argentina. The male is marked by a blue-gray face and a long rusty eyebrow.

• Citron-bellied Attila Attila citriniventris

  The Citron-bellied Attila has a yellow belly and lives in Amazonian forests. It searches for prey in the canopy and middle levels of forest across northern and western parts of South America.

• Dark Pewee Contopus lugubris

  This pewee occurs in mountain forests of Costa Rica and extreme western Panama. It is dark gray and is recorded along forest edges and openings; it may be solitary outside the breeding period.

• Mouse-colored Tyrannulet Nesotriccus murinus

  This small flycatcher ranges broadly from Central into South America, using scrub and wooded habitats. This account excludes populations assigned to the separately recognized Tumbesian and Marañón tyrannulets.

• White-banded Tyrannulet Mecocerculus stictopterus

  The White-banded Tyrannulet is a small bird of Andean forests. Its white eyebrow and two wing-bars stand out as it searches among leaves for small invertebrates.

• Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis

  The Lesser Elaenia uses open scrub and forest edges. In Bolivia it occurs alone or in pairs and eats fruit and arthropods.

• Southern Tropical Pewee Contopus cinereus

  This small tyrant flycatcher has a short bill. The prominence of its white wing bars and the colour of its throat and breast differ between subspecies.

• Lemon-browed Flycatcher Conopias cinchoneti

  This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andean slope. The Peru account gives an elevational range of 800–1,950 m and notes that it also occurs in Colombia and Ecuador.

• Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus capitalis

  At about 9.5 cm, this is a tiny flycatcher of the Amazonian understory. Peru accounts report populations in northern lowland Amazonia and a separate central Peruvian area.

• Rufous-tailed Flycatcher Myiarchus validus

  A Jamaican forest bird that darts out from cover to catch insects.

• Cinnamon-crested Spadebill Platyrinchus saturatus

  A small tyrant flycatcher of Amazonian forest understory. Its species account lists several South American countries and includes an observation from Mato Grosso, Brazil.

• 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.

• Puerto Rican Flycatcher Myiarchus antillarum

  A flycatcher found in Puerto Rico that searches for prey from a perch.

• Stub-tailed Spadebill Platyrinchus cancrominus

  The Stub-tailed Spadebill is a small bird whose nest was observed in dry lowland forest in Costa Rica. At that nest, adults carried spiders and insects to the chicks.

• 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.

• Slaty-backed Chat-Tyrant Ochthoeca cinnamomeiventris

  This small montane flycatcher forages in vegetation overhanging streams on the eastern Andes. Chestnut on the breast and belly varies across the Marañón Valley.

• Rufous-bellied Bush Tyrant Myiotheretes fuscorufus

  This bush tyrant is about 18–19 cm long and occurs in the high Andes. Its first detailed nest record was made at 2,985 m in Peru.

• Snowy-throated Kingbird Tyrannus niveigularis

  This seasonal migrant appears in northwestern Peru from December to June. It uses semi-open woodland and scrub, and has a gray head, white throat, and yellow underparts.

• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus

  The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is a gray and salmon-pink bird with a long, forked tail. It catches insects in the air and gathers to migrate to Mexico and Central America in late summer and fall.

• White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher Poecilotriccus albifacies

  The White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher is a small bird with a red crown and white cheeks. It lives in the Amazonian understory, especially in dense Guadua bamboo patches.

• Western Olivaceous Flatbill Rhynchocyclus aequinoctialis

  This flycatcher lives in lowland and foothill forests in Central and South America. Its very broad bill and faint pale eye-ring help identify it.

• 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.

• Plain Inezia Inezia inornata

  A small South American tyrant flycatcher that uses young riverside vegetation and riparian scrub. In southeastern Peru it is a rare austral migrant, with most records from Madre de Dios.