Oustalet's Tyrannulet
phylloscartes oustaleti
Tyrannidae,Elaeninae · Tyrannulets
- Disc 2 · 2001 listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
11 cm. Larger than Phylloscartes paulistus with a similar coloration, i.e. olive-green above and pale yellow below, with an olive wash across the chest, the wings green without distinctive bars. However the face pattern is different: the area around the eye is blackish and the eye has a distinct yellow ring.
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The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 3 · 2006
Where it was recorded
The discs' own checklists select Oustalet's Tyrannulet at 13 localities.
- Boraceia BOSB
- Fazenda Intervales FASB
- Ilha São Sebastião SSSB
- Jureia-Peruibe JUSB position not recoverable
- Nucleo Sta. Virginia NUSP
- Parati PARB
- PE Carlos Botelho PCSB
- PE Jacupiranga PJSB
- Reserva Ecológica Guapiacú RERB
- Serra dos Orgãos SRRB
- Serra dos Tucanos SDTC
- Sete Barras STSB
- Ubatuba UBSB
How the map was made
The original program computed each red dot at display time from the locality's coordinates, using its map library and one of five base maps drawn for the screen widths of the day. That library's projection — an oblique rotation of the sphere about the map's own centre, 23.7°S 47.4°W — was read from the program and checked against the graticule the same program drew into the base maps: it reproduces every grid intersection to within about a pixel. The dots here use that projection on the 1280-pixel base map, with the coordinates the discs record. Nothing was placed by hand, no modern map data was used, and a place whose coordinate is incomplete, out of range or beyond the map's edge is listed rather than guessed.
The discs carried location maps only; none shows a distribution or range.
The account, continued
Voice
Not very vocal. Call 'de de du dededu' and variations thereof, in its structure reminiscent of the call of Phaeomyias murina. Single "tek tek" or "tik tik" calls and fast "didididididi.....".
Behavior
In contrast to Phylloscartes paulistus quivers tail constantly. Forages in the canopy and subcanopy of forest and is frequently found in mixed flocks.
Habitat and status
Rare in primary and secondary humid forest and borders.
Distribution
Mostly the Serra do Mar on the upper slopes at altitudes of 700-900 meters. Encountered, e.g., at Nucleo Sta. Virginia above Ubatuba and at Boraceia above Bertioga (Estado São Paulo).
Decoded from the disc's own bytes. Each part is shown under the heading the disc files it under, and the wording, spelling and punctuation are the author's.
Vocalizations
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Calls, song?. Cornell Cat#22052. Nova Lombardia Reserve, Espirito Santo, 10/26/80. With Chiroxiphia caudata, Saltator similis. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
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Calls, Cornell Cat#57904. Ilha do Cardoso, 7/11/1991. Recording by D. Finch.
Recording files on the disc
- 4177.wav Calls, song?. Cornell Cat#22052. Nova Lombardia Reserve, Espirito Santo, 10/26/80. With Chiroxiphia caudata, Saltator similis. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
- 16189.mp3 Calls, Cornell Cat#57904. Ilha do Cardoso, 7/11/1991. Recording by D. Finch.
Across the three discs
The work was published on three discs — Disc 2 in 2001, Disc 3 in 2006 and Disc 1 in 2011. Where they differ, that is a difference between historical releases, and it is never merged away. The 2011 disc is not treated as correcting the earlier ones.
Which discs list this bird
- Disc 2 · 2001 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list
How that was established
- Disc 2 · 2001
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 3 · 2006
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1- Disc 1 · 2011
aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.
The account in the Disc 1 · 2011 revision
The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.
The work's own taxonomy
The discs carried three parallel name schemes. All three are shown as recovered; none is a modern taxonomy and none has been updated.
| Scheme | Scientific name | English name | Family |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORLD | phylloscartes oustaleti | Oustalet's Tyrannulet | Tyrannidae,Elaeninae |
| CLEMENTS | phylloscartes oustaleti | Oustalet's Tyrannulet | Tyrannidae,Elaeninae |
| AOU_HM | phylloscartes oustaleti | Oustalet's Tyrannulet | Tyrannidae,Elaeninae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0206
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0206
- Account number on the disc
- 206
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative