Brown-headed Greenlet
Hylophilus brunneicepsSclater, PL, 1866
English (US) Brown-headed Greenlet
The Brown-headed Greenlet (Hylophilus brunneiceps) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Vireonidae (Shrike-babblers, Erpornis, and Vireos) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela and northwestern BrazilRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hylophilus brunneiceps
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Brown-headed Greenlet
- Described by
- Sclater, PL, 1866
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Sclater, PL, 1866
- Type locality
- Ypanema, central Brazil ; error, type from Rio Vaupes, a tributary of upper Rio Negro, Amazonas, fide Hellmayr, 1935, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 8, p. 168.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866, pt.2 p.322
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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