Yellow-throated Flycatcher

The yellow-throated flycatcher (Conopias parvus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, and possibly Bolivia. == Taxonomy and systematics == The yellow-throated flycatcher has a complicated taxonomic history. It was originally described as Pitangus parvus, grouping it with the great kiskadee (P. sulphuratus). For a time it was treated as a subspecies of the white-ringed flycatcher (then Coryphotriccus albovittatus, now Conopias albovittatus). Starting in the 1960s authors began merging genus Coryphotriccus into genus Conopias that had been erected in 1860. In the early twenty-first century the yellow-throated flycatcher was again recognized as a full species. The yellow-throated flycatcher is monotypic. == Description == The yellow-throated flycatcher is 15 to 16.5 cm (5.9 to 6.5 in) long and weighs about 21 g (0.74 oz). The sexes have the same plumage; females are slightly smaller than males. Adults have a black to dark sooty brownish crown and face with a mostly hidden lemon-yellow to canary-yellow patch in the center of the crown. They have a white supercilium that begins at the forehead, widens behind the eye, and wraps almost all the way around the…