Ornithion

Ornithion is a genus of birds in the large tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.

Ornithion
White-lored tyrannulet (Ornithion inerme)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Tyrannidae
Genus:	Ornithion Hartlaub, 1853
Type species
Ornithion inerme[1] Hartlaub, 1853

Species

The genus contains three species:^[2]

Genus Ornithion – Hartlaub, 1853 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Brown-capped tyrannulet	Ornithion brunneicapillus (Lawrence, 1862)	Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
White-lored tyrannulet	Ornithion inerme Hartlaub, 1853	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Yellow-bellied tyrannulet	Ornithion semiflavum (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1860)	Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC