| Streaked Flycatcher (Myiodynastes maculatus) |
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Brazil The Streaked Flycatcher is found from Mexico to central Argentina except along Pacific coast and Andes from northern Peru southwards. |
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It is quite distinctive and is relatively large at around 20 cms. It has a white supercilium above a broad blackish line through the eye with another whitish line through the cheek and a dark malar stripe. The bill is black with pink at the base of the lower mandible. Its tail is mainly rufous and the underparts are white to pale yellow with heavy dark streaks on the breast and flanks. It prefers secondary woodland and forest borders while in Amazonia it is mainly found in várzea forest and on river islands such as Marchantaria. |
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There are illustrations in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 44; Hilty & Brown, Plate 39; and Ridgely & Greenfield, Plate 74. | |||
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