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Mouse-grey Flycatcher

Myiophobus crypterythrus(Sclater, PL, 1861)

English (US) Mouse-Gray Flycatcher

UK name: Mouse-grey Flycatcher

The Mouse-grey Flycatcher (Myiophobus crypterythrus) 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 Tyrannidae (Tyrant Flycatchers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.

Range: west of the Andes in southwestern Colombia, western Ecuador, and northwestern Peru (southward to southwestern Cajamarca)Range summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Myiophobus crypterythrus
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
English (US)
Mouse-Gray Flycatcher
English (UK)
Mouse-grey Flycatcher
Described by
(Sclater, PL, 1861)

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Taxonomic history

First described as
Myiobius crypterythrus
Described by
(Sclater, PL, 1861)
Type locality
Pallatanga, Babahoyo and Esmeraldas, western Ecuador; type from Pallatanga, fide Hellmayr, 1927, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 5, p. 254.
Original description
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt.28, no.3 p.464

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

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