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Flammulated flycatcher
The flammulated flycatcher (''Deltarhynchus flammulatus'') is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family and is the only species in the monotypic genus ''Deltarhynchus'', although it is closely related to the birds of the genus ''Myiarchus''. It is endemic to the dry deciduous forest, arid thorn forest, and scrubby woodland of Mexico’s Pacific coast. The flycatcher is an olive to gray-brown bird with a streaked, pale gray chest, white throat, black bill, dark gray feet, and dark brown wings. It is a skulking bird that typically remains hidden in the underbrush. It feeds by gleaning insects off of leaves and twigs that it spots from an exposed perch. The female lays approximately three eggs in a nest made in a shallow tree cavity.
==Taxonomy==
The species was first described in 1875 by ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence, who placed this species in the genus ''Myiarchus''. However, in 1893 it was split from ''Myiarchus'' into the new, monotypic genus ''Deltarhynchus'' by Robert Ridgway because of its shorter and broader bill, more rounded wings, and partially streaked underparts. This change was upheld in 1901 by Richard Bowdler Sharpe and by subsequent authors.〔 However, in 1977 ornithologist Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr., while upholding its status as a monotypic genus, said that the species should be lumped back into ''Myiarchus'' if its nesting habits were similar to those of that genus. These doubts were put to rest by Wesley Lanyon's research of the flycatcher in 1979, which confirmed the bird's placement in a monotypic genus.〔
''Deltarhynchus'' is similar to the genus ''Myiarchus'', but is distinguished from it by a broader and shorter bill, more rounded wings, a different face pattern, pale cinnamon wing and tail edgings, voice, streaking on the chest, and the bird's skulking habits.〔〔 The flammulated flycatcher's generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek words ''delta'', which means "delta-shaped" or, in this case, "wedge", and ''rhynchos'', which means "beak". Its specific epithet is derived from the Latin word ''flammula'', which means "little flame". The flycatcher has no subspecies.
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