Smoky Bush-Tyrant

About the Smoky Bush-Tyrant

The smoky bush tyrant (Myiotheretes fumigatus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The smoky bush tyrant was formally described in 1840 as Tyrannula fumigata. For a time in the early twentieth century it was placed in genus Ochthodiaeta. That genus was later merged into Xolmis and still later the species was recognized in its present genus Myiotheretes that had been erected in 1850.

The smoky bush tyrant has these four subspecies: M. f. olivaceus (Phelps, WH & Phelps, WH Jr, 1953) M. f. fumigatus (Boissonneau, 1840) M. f. lugubris (Berlepsch, 1883) M. f. cajamarcae (Chapman, 1927) The smoky bush tyrant is 18 to 20.5 cm (7.1 to 8.1 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage, which is somewhat reminiscent of a thrush's. Adults of the nominate subspecies M. f. fumigatus have a thin white supercilium on an otherwise dark smoky brown face. Their upperparts are also dark smoky brown. Their wings are mostly blackish with buffy edges on the coverts and cinnamon bases to the inner webs of the flight feathers; the latter show prominently in flight. Their underwing... Wikipedia →