McConnell's flycatcher (''Mionectes macconnelli'') is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found in the

Guiana Shield The Guiana Shield (french: Plateau des Guyanes, Bouclier guyanais; nl, Hoogland van Guyana, Guianaschild; pt, Planalto das Guianas, Escudo das Guianas; es, Escudo guayanés) is one of the three cratons of the South American Plate. It is a ...

, northern Brazil, Peru and

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. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. McConnell's flycatcher was described by the English ornithologist Charles Chubb in 1919 as a

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

of the

ochre-bellied flycatcher The ochre-bellied flycatcher (''Mionectes oleagineus'') is a small bird of the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds from southern Mexico through Central America, and South America east of the Andes as far as southern Brazil, and on Trinidad and To ...

. He coined the

trinomial name In biology, trinomial nomenclature refers to names for taxa below the rank of species. These names have three parts. The usage is different in zoology and botany. In zoology In zoological nomenclature, a trinomen (), trinominal name, or ternary ...

''Pipromorpha oleaginea macconnelli'' and specified the type location as the Kamakabra River in British Guiana. The name ''macconnelli'' was chosen to honour the memory of Frederick Vavasour McConnell (1868-1914), an English traveller and collector. It was treated as a separate species by the American ornithologist Clyde Todd in 1921, and was placed in the genus ''

Mionectes ''Mionectes'' is a genus of birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. The genus was erected in 1844 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis with the streak-necked flycatcher (''Mionectes striaticollis'') as the type species. Species Th ...

'' by Melvin Traylor in Volume 8 of the '' Check-list of Birds of the World'' published in 1979. The species is monotypic. McConnell's flycatcher is about in length and has olive upperparts, mainly dull ochraceous underparts and a narrow bill. This species was formerly considered conspecific with

Sierra de Lema flycatcher The Sierra de Lema flycatcher or Tepui flycatcher (''Mionectes roraimae'') is a species of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. It is found in highland areas, including the table-top mountains ( tepui), of southern Venezuela and the ...

(''Mionectes roraimae''). The two species have similar plumage but differ in their vocalisation and display behaviour.

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Xeno-canto: audio recordings McConnell's flycatcher
McConnell's flycatcher Birds of the Guiana Shield Birds of the Amazon rainforest McConnell's flycatcher Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Tyrannidae-stub

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