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Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant

Lophotriccus pileatus

(L 4")

Most obvious features is the pale
eyes...from Honduras to south
Peru and north Venezuela.

Buonaventura Reserve

Umbrella Bird Lodge

13Feb2013

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,

(Emily Dickinson)

Lophotricus in Greek means
hair crest; pileatus means
capped.

© Arnoud B.
van den Berg

Macaulay
Library