Platyrinchus leucoryphus, Wied, 1831

Lima, Rafael Dantas, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Lemos, Renata Constant de Amorim, Lobo-Araújo, Lahert William, Andrade, Arthur Barbosa de, Francisco, Mercival Roberto & Efe, Márcio Amorim, 2022, An annotated avian inventory of the Brazilian state of Alagoas, one of the world’s most threatened avifauna, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-36 : 11

Platyrinchus leucoryphus

This Atlantic Forest endemic is known to occur from Paraguay to southern Bahia, Brazil ( Collar et al., 1992; Gabriel & Silva-Filho, 2011). One individual mist-netted and collected at the Murici Ecological Station on 10 October 2010 (MHNAL 356; Fig. 9 ) constitutes the northernmost record by approximately 840 km and the only one in the PCE. No species of the genus Platyrinchus is known to undertake migratory movements, therefore we assume that a population had gone unnoticed in the PCE until then. Because it has never been recorded again in the PCE, this single record may have been the first and the last of this putative PCE population (as with Hypoedaleus guttatus ). The collected specimen was compared with the series housed at MZUSP and no clear plumage of morphometric differences were found.

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Figure 9. Russet-winged Spadebill mist-netted at the Murici Ecological Station on 10 October 2010 (© LABECAN/UFAL).