Brown-capped Whitestart (Myioborus brunniceps) [XC190387]
by Peter Boesman from Along road down to the R\u00edo Khatu; near Inquisivi, La Paz, Bolivia (song)
Brown-capped Whitestart (Myioborus brunniceps) [XC4795]
by Nick Athanas from Alarachi, Tarija, Bolivia (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Formerly considered conspecific with Tepui Whitestart (Myioborus castaneocapilla), but the two differ in their songs and are widely separated geographically. Treatment as separate species supported by recent phylogenetic study, which suggested that close plumage similarities between the two may be due to retention of ancestral traits, rather than to genetic similarity.