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Black-crowned tityra
Black-crowned tityra.jpg
Male, Rio Silanche Reserve, NW Ecuador
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Genus:
Tityra
Species:
inquisitor
Tityra inquisitor map.svg
Synonyms

Erator inquisitor
Psaris fraserii

The black-crowned tityra (Tityra inquisitor) is a medium-sized passerine bird. It has traditionally been placed in the cotinga or the tyrant flycatcher family, but evidence strongly suggest it is better placed in Tityridae.

It is found in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

  • Tityra inquisitor inquisitor: Tropical southeast Brazil (s Piauí) to east Paraguay and northeast Argentina
  • Tityra inquisitor fraserii: Tropical southeast Mexico (San Luis Potosí) to central Panama
  • Tityra inquisitor albitorques: Tropical east Panama to northwest Bolivia and west Amazonian Brazil
  • Tityra inquisitor buckleyi: Tropical southeast Colombia (Caquetá) and east Ecuador (Napo-Pastaza)
  • Tityra inquisitor erythrogenys: Tropical east Colombia to Venezuela, the Guianas and north Brazil
  • Tityra inquisitor pelzelni: Tropical northeast Bolivia, Mato Grosso and Brazil south of the Amazon
NML-VZ D1868 NML-VZ D1868a Psaris fraserii
Syntypes of Psaris fraserii Kaup (NML-VZ D1868; NML-VZ D1868a) held at World Museum, National Museums Liverpool

The syntypes of Psaris fraserii Kaup (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 19. ,1851 (1852), p.47. pl. 37-38), an adult male and female, are held in the vertebrate zoology collection of National Museums Liverpool at World Museum, with accession number NML-VZ D1868 and NML-VZ D1868a. The specimen came to the Liverpool national collection via the 13th Earl of Derby’s collection which was bequeathed to the people of Liverpool in 1851.

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