Greenish Elaenia

13 cm. A small green elaenia of inland forests. Olive-green above with a lighter superciliary and a yellow coronal stripe. Wings and tail a darker greenish-olive, the wings without distinct wing bars. Throat grayish. Breast olive-gray. Belly yellow. <N The female /Myiopagis caniceps has strong whitish-yellow wing bars. Call is a slurred "zu-i" or "cheerip" ^44 , see cut 2. Cut 1 is also characterisitic, a variation of the first call, but lower in pitch, like "zei-do.... zidli zidli.... zeido". Dawn song is a sqeaky whistle repeated consistently "tsibit-TSEE-tsigheh" ^30 maybe similar to cut 1. See also ^38. Usually well into the interior of the forest canopy. Posture usually elaenia-like vertical. An upward-hover gleaner and perch gleaner ^74 . Fairly common, but inconspicuous in the canopy of dry woodlands, forest borders and gallery forest. Mostly extralimital. In the drier interior forests. Does not occur at the coast or in the Serra Mantiqueira. Pinto reports this species from the northern part of Estado S<C4>o Paulo e. g. from<8E>Bebedouro, Porto Cabral, Lins, Avanhandava . Forrester notes it as accidental in the<8E>Serra Mantiqueira<8E>. Found near<8E>Rio Claro<8E>and probably closer to the coast in suitable habitat. 1893 Song, call. Rio Claro, 11<10>11<10>95. Sunny, 30 <91>C. Secondary forest.: 5704 Call. Cornell Cat 19995, Pedro Mofka Fazenda, Carazinho, Rio Grande do Sul, 10<10>18<10>78. With /Chiroxiphia caudata, Cyclarhis gujanensis, Leptotila verreauxi, Basileuterus culicivorus . Recording by W. Belton.: 11487 Call. Pirapora, 10<10>20<10>99. Cloudy, rain, 25<91>C. Open forest.: 8882 >: 2824 >: