The olive-faced flatbill or olive-faced flycatcher (''Tolmomyias viridiceps'') is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of bird in the tyrant flycatcher family

Tyrannidae The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America. They are considered the largest family of birds known to exist in the world, with more than 400 species. They are the most dive ...

. It is found in riparian woodland and at the forest edge in western Amazonia. The olive-faced flatbill was described by the English ornithologists

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and

Osbert Salvin Osbert Salvin FRS (25 February 1835 – 1 June 1898) was an English naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist best known for co-authoring ''Biologia Centrali-Americana'' (1879–1915) with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume encyc ...

in 1873 from a specimen collected in

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, Peru. They coined the

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''Rhynchocyclus viridiceps''. It was formerly treated as a

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of the ochre-lored flatbill (''Tolmomyias flaviventris'') but is now considered as a separate species based primarily on its very different vocalization.

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Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the olive-faced flatbill (''Tolmomyias viridiceps'')
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