Forest Elaenia (Myiopagis gaimardii) [XC603687]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Dekma, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Bolivia (call)
Forest Elaenia (Myiopagis gaimardii) [XC455598]
by Brice de la Croix from Metropolitan Park, Panama city, Panama (call)
Subspecies
Was once placed in its own genus, Elainopsis, and moved to the family Cotingidae on basis of its incomplete tarsal envelope.
Proposed subspecies subcinerea (east-central Brazil from lower Amazon Basin east to Maranhío and Goiás) treated as a synonym of nominate. Intergrades broadly with nominate and with guianensis, and most individuals cannot be reliably distinguished from either.
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
macilvainii (Lawrence, 1871) - Panama (east of Canal Zone) and Caribbean coast of Colombia (east to base of Santa Marta Mts).
bogotensis (von Berlepsch, 1907) - North-eastern Colombia (from northern Santa Marta Mts) east to northern Venezuela (western Zulia east to Sucre, south to Barinas, Apure and R Orinoco).
trinitatis (Hartert & Goodson, 1917) - Trinidad.
guianensis (von Berlepsch, 1907) - Eastern Amazonian Colombia, southern and south-eastern Venezuela (south of R Orinoco) and the Guianas south to northern Amazonian Brazil and extreme north-eastern Peru (Loreto).
gaimardii (D'Orbigny, 1840) - Eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, southern Amazonian Brazil (east to western Pará, also Alagoas, south to western Mato Grosso, western Sío Paulo and Goiás) and northern Bolivia.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet