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The pileated flycatcher (Xenotriccus mexicanus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to Mexico. == Taxonomy and systematics == The pileated flycatcher was originally described as Aechmolophus mexicanus with the genus Aechmolophus being erected for it. What became the type specimen had been misidentified as a western wood pewee (then Myiochanes richardsonii, now Contopus sordidulus). In 1977 its original genus was merged into Xenotriccus which had been erected in 1927. The pileated flycatcher and the belted flycatcher (X. callizonus) are the only members of Xenotriccus. The pileated flycatcher is monotypic. == Description == The pileated flycatcher is 13.5 to 14.5 cm (5.3 to 5.7 in) long. The species is similar to those of genus Empidonax but is stockier and longer-tailed with a thicker bill. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly brownish olive head with a pointed grayish or olive-brown crest, pale lores, and a white teardrop-shaped eye-ring. The crest is usually held erect. Their upperparts are mostly grayish to brownish olive. Their wings are a darker brownish olive than the back, with whitish ends on the coverts that show as two wing bars. They have whitish edges on…