Tepui Elaenia
Elaenia olivina Salvin & Godman, 1884
Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
Tepui Elaenia, Elaenia olivina, is a passerine of the tepuis in southern and south-eastern Venezuela and Guyana. It was described by Salvin and Godman in 1884. This small tyrant flycatcher has a very small crest, and the sexes look alike. The nominate form has dark olive-brown upperparts, a pale eyering, a narrow white crown stripe and yellowish underparts with olive on the throat, breast and flanks. The other subspecies is darker above and brighter below. It lives in scrubby edges, rocky openings and secondary forest in humid montane areas.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Tyrannidae — Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura
- Breeding range
- South America: tepuis of s, se Venezuela and Guyana
