About Myiophobus fasciatus crypterythrus (P.L.Sclater, 1861)
Myiophobus fasciatus, commonly known as the bran-colored flycatcher, is 11 to 14 cm (4.3 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 7.1 to 17 g (0.25 to 0.60 oz). The sexes are very similar in appearance. Adult males of the nominate subspecies M. f. fasciatus have a reddish brown crown with a partly hidden yellow to orange-rufous patch in the center. Both sexes have brown lores, a short yellowish white line above the lores, and a thin white eye-ring set against an otherwise reddish brown face. Their back and rump are reddish brown. Their wings range from dusky to dark brown, with thin buff edges on the flight feathers and wide buff-white tips on the wing coverts. The pale tips of the wing coverts form two distinct wing bars. Their tail is dark brown. Their throat and underparts are mostly dull white, marked with short grayish brown streaks that are thickest on the breast and flanks. Their belly sometimes has a faint yellow tinge. Adult females have a much smaller crown patch than males, or no crown patch at all, and have less heavily streaked underparts. All subspecies of the bran-colored flycatcher have a dark brown, cinnamon-brown, or brown iris, and black legs and feet. Most individuals have a black or blackish gray upper mandible (maxilla) and a dark lower mandible with an orange-yellow, brownish pink, or pinkish gray base. Subspecies differ in appearance from the nominate M. f. fasciatus and from one another as follows: M. f. furfurosus has the richest reddish-brown upperparts of all subspecies, a yellower belly than the nominate, rufous-white wingbars, and an orange-yellow or pinkish mandible. M. f. saturatus is duller overall than the nominate, with brown upperparts that lack rufous coloring and a deeper yellow belly. M. f. auriceps has darker brown upperparts and darker brown breast streaking than the nominate, with a white belly; populations in Brazil have somewhat more buffy underparts and more cinnamon-colored wing bars. M. f. flammiceps is the largest subspecies, with warmer brown upperparts than the other subspecies and a white belly washed with yellow, and a pale mandible. The bran-colored flycatcher has a disjunct distribution, with each subspecies occupying a separate geographic range: M. f. furfurosus is found from southern San José Province in southwestern Costa Rica south through Puntarenas Province into Panama, extending just past the Canal Zone, and also on the Pearl Islands off Panama's Pacific coast. M. f. fasciatus occurs across most of the length of the three ranges of the Colombian Andes; eastern Ecuador; Venezuela, in the Serranía del Perijá, across most of northern Venezuela, and in western Amazonas and central Bolívar states, and is likely present throughout the country; coastal areas of the Guianas; and northern Brazil in the states of Roraima, Amapá, and northernmost Pará. M. f. saturatus is found in Amazonian and east Andean foothills of Peru, between the departments of San Martín and Cusco. M. f. auriceps occurs in southeastern Peru, Acre state in western Brazil, northern and eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, and Argentina as far south as Buenos Aires Province. M. f. flammiceps occurs across roughly the eastern half of Brazil, eastern Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina. Across its wide range, the bran-colored flycatcher inhabits a variety of somewhat open landscapes. These include the interior and edges of dry forest, brushy savanna and pastures, and thickets along watercourses in arid areas. It also occupies successional vegetation on riverbanks and river islands, and the Llanos of Colombia and Venezuela. Its elevational range varies by region: between 700 and 1,250 m (2,300 and 4,100 ft) in Central America, between 600 and 2,000 m (2,000 and 6,600 ft) in Colombia, up to 1,700 m (5,600 ft) north of the Orinoco River and up to 1,200 m (3,900 ft) south of the Orinoco in Venezuela, between 300 and 1,100 m (1,000 and 3,600 ft) in Ecuador, up to 1,800 m (5,900 ft) in Peru, and from sea level to 1,500 m (4,900 ft) in Brazil.
