Brazilian name: maria-de-barriga-branca
White-bellied Tody-Tyrant is distributed in the Amazon Basin
south of the Amazon river with a disjunct population in
north-east Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte to Alagoas.
|HBW Volume 9
published in 2004 separated White-eyed H. zosterops from
White-bellied H. griseipectus but left this
sub-species naumburgae in H. zosterops
with the comment "vocal characters suggest that
geographically isolated race naumburgae may belong with
that species [H. griseipectus]" Nowadays all
authorities seem to treat the bird pictured here as the
sub-species naumburgae of White-bellied Tody-Tyrant
H. griseipectus .
It is found in humid forest where it perches inconspicuously before sallying upwards to glean insect prey from the undersides of leaves.
Apart from its greyish underparts and pale,
whitish eye, it has two yellowish wing-bars and a pink base to
its lower mandible.
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