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[[Image:Sirystes.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|Luiz|Luiz}} <br />Photo taken: Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, [[Brazil]].]]
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'''Sirystes''' may refer to one of four species previously considered conspecific under the name '''Sirystes''' (''Sirystes sibilator''):
;[[: Category:Sirystes|Sirystes]] sibilator
 
'''Includes Western Sirystes; Eastern Sirystes; Todd's Syristes and White-rumped Syristes'''
 
==Identification==
 
Black crown with a raised crest and grey to white underparts; rump is white or whitish, least strongly marked in subspecies ''sibilator'' and ''atimastus''. Similar to a ''Myiarchus'' flycatcher in shape.
 
==Distribution==
 
[[Colombia]] through Amazonia to southeast [[Brazil]].
 
==Taxonomy==
 
Five subspecies are recognized which are sometimes split into four species:
 
*Eastern or Sibilant Syristes
 
:*''S. s. sibilator''
 
::*eastern [[Brazil]], eastern [[Paraguay]] and northeast [[Argentina]]
 
:*''S. s. atimastus'':
 
::*southwest [[Brazil]]
 
*White-rumped Syristes (sometimes included in Eastern Syristes)
 
:*''S. s. albocinereus''
 
::*southwest [[Venezuela]], eastern [[Colombia]], eastern [[Ecuador]], eastern [[Peru]], western [[Brazil]] and northern [[Bolivia]]
 
*Todd's Syristes (sometimes included in Eastern Syristes)
 
:*''S. s. subcanescens''
 
::*Guyanas and northeastern Amazonian [[Brazil]]
 
*Western Syristes
 
:*''S. s. albogriseus''
 
::*Panama, northwestern [[Colombia]], northwestern [[Ecuador]]
 
  
==Habitat==
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*'''[[Choco Sirystes]]''' - ''Sirystes albogriseus''
Moist lowland forests.
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*'''[[White-rumped Sirystes]]''' - ''Sirystes albocinereus''
==Behaviour==
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*'''[[Todd's Sirystes]]''' - ''Sirystes subcanescens''
 
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*'''[[Sibilant Sirystes]]''' - ''Sirystes sibilator''
==References==
 
# Clements, James F. 2007. ''The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World''. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
 
# Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156
 
==External Links==
 
{{GSearch|Sirystes+sibilator}}
 
 
 
[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Sirystes]]
 

Latest revision as of 11:57, 11 August 2014

This is a disambiguation page. A number of articles are associated with the title Sirystes.
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Sirystes may refer to one of four species previously considered conspecific under the name Sirystes (Sirystes sibilator):

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