Pelzeln's Tody-Tyrant

About the Pelzeln's Tody-Tyrant

Pelzeln's tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus inornatus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Brazil, Suriname, and Venezuela. Pelzeln's tody-tyrant had a complicated taxonomic history from its original description in 1868 to late in the twentieth century. It was described as Euscarthmus inornatus. It was later moved to the genus Idioptilon, and later still both Euscarthmus and Idioptilon were merged into Hemitriccus. It was for a time treated as a subspecies of the pearly-vented tody-tyrant (H. margaritaceiventer).

The type specimen of Pelzeln's tody-tyrant had been collected almost 40 years before Pelzeln formally described it in 1868. The species was not seen again until 1992. Pelzeln's tody-tyrant is monotypic. Pelzeln's tody-tyrant is about 9 cm (3.5 in) long and weighs 7.7 to 9 g (0.27 to 0.32 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a brownish olive crown. Their lores and a thin eye-ring are whitish on an otherwise brownish olive face. Their back and rump are brownish olive. Their wings are dusky olive-brown with whitish edges on the flight feathers and tips of the coverts; the latter... Wikipedia →