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Alagoas Tyrannulet

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Phylloscartes ceciliae

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[edit] Identification

12 cm

  • Olivace-green upperparts
  • Whitish underparts
  • Dark green flanks
  • pale yellowish lower belly
  • Whitish supercilium and area below eye extending onto ear-coverts
  • Dusky eye-stripe and loral area
  • Two pale yellowish wing-bars and fringing
  • Dusky wings and tail.

[edit] Distribution

Highlands of north-eastern Brazil (Alagoas)

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Tropical lowland evergreen forest on hills and lower slopes between 500m and 800m.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes small insects taken from the surface of leaves and branches.

[edit] References

BirdLife International

[edit] External Links

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