Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
Entire Amazon-Orinoco Basin, including south-eastern Colombia, southern and eastern Venezuela (north to south-eastern Sucre), the Guianas, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and Amazonian Brazil; isolated population in south-eastern Bahia and northern Espírito Santo, in coastal eastern Brazil.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Cinereous Mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) [XC224800]
by John V. Moore from Amazon Manu Lodge, Madre de Dios, Peru (song)
Cinereous Mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) [XC264755]
by Ciro Albano from Orellana: Right (s) bank R\u00edo Napo opposite 'La Selva Lodge' and 'Sacha Lodge', Ecuador (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Genus often placed in Cotingidae, and possibly better treated in that family. Scientific name has often been misspelled as "hypopyrrha". Forms a superspecies with Speckled Mourner (Laniocera rufescens).