Yellow-breasted Flycatcher -Tolmomyias flaviventris

Yellow-breasted Flycatcher (Tolmomyias flaviventris)
(aka Yellow-breasted Flatbill, Ochre-lored Flatbill)

Brazil

The Yellow-breasted Flycatcher is found in the Amazon and Orinoco Basins and in northern Colombia, Venezuela and down the east coast of Brazil to Rio de Janeiro (but see note below.)

It prefers várzea forest, light woodland and gallery woodland.

It is uniform yellowish-olive above with no grey on the crown and its wings are blackish with two conspicuous yellow wing-bars. Its most noticeable feature is the bright yellow below with some greyness on the breast and flanks. The bill is flat and dark above, pale below.

Yellow-breasted Flycatcher, Jeremoabo, Bahia, Brazil, March 2004 - click for larger image

Note: Following a paper by J.M.Bates, T.A.Parker III, A.P.Caparella & T.J.Davis in Bull. B.O.C. 112[2]: 90-91, 1992, Ridgely & Greenfield classify the 3 west-Amazonian subspecies (viridiceps, subsimilis and zimmeri) as a separate species, Olive-faced Flatbill (Tolmomyias viridiceps). They also suggest that the English name of the remaining subspecies, T.f. flaviventris, T.f. aurulentus, T.f. collingwoodi, and T.f. dissors, be changed to Ochre-lored Flatbill.

The first photo was taken at Ilha São José, Roraima, Brazil so should be the sub-species T. f. dissors while the second photo of the nominate sub-species T. f. flaviventris was taken near Jeremoabo, Bahia.

There are illustrations in Ridgely & Tudor, Volume 2, Plate 37; and Hilty & Brown, Plate 36.

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