North-eastern Brazil, from Piauí and Ceará south through Bahia and Minas Gerais to northern Sío Paulo; also, apparently disjunctly, in south-western Mato Grosso do Sul and Bolivia (Beni).
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Grey-eyed Greenlet (Hylophilus amaurocephalus) [XC747592]
by Jose Roberto de Matos from San Ramon (near San Ram\u00f3n), Mamore, Beni Department, Bolivia (song, subsong)
Grey-eyed Greenlet (Hylophilus amaurocephalus) [XC705772]
by Cicero Sim\u00e3o Lima Santos from Caconde, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil (call, song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Formerly treated as conspecific with Rufous-crowned Greenlet (Hylophilus poicilotis), with which partly sympatric, but appears to be clearly differentiated by plumage, eye colour, vocalizations and habitat preference. Previously reported hybridization between the two explained as being due to presence of a "residual cline" that reflects geographical variation of the ancestor.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet