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Silvicultrix
Silvicultrix
is
a genus
of
South American
birds
in the
tyrant flycatcher
family
Tyrannidae
.
The
genus
was
erected
by
the American
ornithologist
Wesley
E.
Lanyon
in
1986
with the
yellow-bellied chat-tyrant
as the
type species
.
The genus
contains
five species:
Crowned chat-tyrant
,
Silvicultrix
frontalis
Kalinowski's chat-tyrant
,
Silvicultrix spodionota
Golden-browed chat-tyrant
Silvicultrix
pulchella
Yellow-bellied chat-tyrant
Silvicultrix
diadema
Jelski's chat-tyrant
Silvicultrix jelskii
These
species
were formerly included in the genus
Ochthoeca
.