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BRAN-COLOURED FLYCATCHER Myiophobus fasciatus
The Bran-coloured Flycatcher is a stereotypical LBJ (little brown job). He is an open-country flycatcher, going about his business quietly on the edge of scrubby thickets. Males have a colourful crown patch, but you´ll do well to see it in the field, it is usually concealed beneath the brown head feathers.
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FIGURE 1 - Adult unsexed, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith December 2006).
FIGURE 2 - Adult dorsal, Bahía de Asunción, Departamento Central (Arne Lesterhuis September 2009).
FIGURE 3 - Same individual ventral (Arne Lesterhuis September 2009).
FIGURE 4 - Adult male typical, Arroyo Mboi Kae, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September).
FIGURE 5 - Same individual upperwing showing yellow crown  (Paul Smith September).
FIGURE 6 - Adult male with pale supraloral, Arroyo Mboi Kae, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September).
FIGURE 7 - Same individual upperwing showing orange crown  (Paul Smith September).
Females lack the crown patch of males, though in the field it is rarely visible. We have noted a certain amount of individual variability in this species. The crown patch may be yellow (usually) or orange (rarely), while odd individuals show a fairly prominent pale supraloral area (Fig 5) not found in other individuals. These characters are interchangeable ie yellow-crowned birds with pale supralorals exist as do orange-crowned birds with no supraloral.
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Myiophobus fasciatus song recorded PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
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