Pileated Flycatcher (Xenotriccus mexicanus)
About the Pileated Flycatcher
The pileated flycatcher (Xenotriccus mexicanus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic to Mexico. The pileated flycatcher was originally described as Aechmolophus mexicanus with the genus Aechmolophus being erected for it. What became the type specimen had been misidentified as a western wood pewee (then Myiochanes richardsonii, now Contopus sordidulus). In 1977 its original genus was merged into Xenotriccus which had been erected in 1927. The pileated flycatcher and the belted flycatcher (X. callizonus) are the only members of Xenotriccus. The pileated flycatcher is monotypic.
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Listed as recorded in Mexico in the xeno-canto catalogue.