Tawny-crowned Pygmy Tyrant (Euscarthmus meloryphus) [XC715933]
by Hern\u00e1n Arias from Pilcomayo, Formosa, Argentina (song)
Tawny-crowned Pygmy Tyrant (Euscarthmus meloryphus) [XC296839]
by Jeremy Minns from Provincia de S\u00e1nchez Carri\u00f3n, La Libertad, Peru (call)
Subspecies
Genus once placed in the family Formicariidae because of odd tarsal scutellation. Affinities within present family uncertain.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
paulus (Bangs, 1899) - North-eastern Colombia and northern Venezuela (east to Sucre, south to north-eastern Bolívar).
fulviceps Sclater, PL, 1871 - Western and south-eastern Ecuador (southern from Manabí, including coastal islands, also southern Zamora-Chinchipe) and western and northern Peru (Tumbes south to Lima, also arid Marañón Valley in Cajamarca, Amazonas and La Libertad). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Tawny-fronted Pygmy-tyrant (Euscarthmus fulviceps).
meloryphus Wied, 1831 - Eastern Brazil (Maranhío and Ceará south to Mato Grosso and Rio Grande do Sul), eastern Peru (eastern Puno), eastern Bolivia (southern from Pando), northern and eastern Paraguay, north-western and north-eastern Argentina (south to Tucumán and, in east, to Córdoba and northern Buenos Aires) and Uruguay.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet