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143. CULICIVORA STENURA (Temm.). 

 (NARROW-TAILED TYRANT.) 



Culicivora stenura, White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 605 (Misiones). 



. Above sandy brown, striated with black ; head nearly black ; 



lores and superciliaries white ; wings and tail blackish with slight brownish 

 edgings ; below pale sandy buff, more brownish on the sides of the neck and 

 flanks ; bill and feet black : whole length 37 inches, wing 1-7 ; tail, ext. rectr. 

 1-3, med. 1-9. 



Hab. S.E. Brazil. 



An example of this species is stated by White to have been obtained 

 by him at Itapua, Misiones, in July 1881, but there was possibly an 

 error in its identification. 



144. STIGMATURA BUDYTOIDES (d'Orb. et Lafr.). 

 (WAGTAIL TYRANT.) 



Stigmatura budytoides, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 46 j Salvin, Ibis, 1880, 

 p. 357 (Tucuman, Salta). 



Description. Above greyish olive; lores and short superciliary streak yellowish ; 

 wings blackish brown, tips of wing-coverts and outer margins of secondaries 

 white ; tail blackish, all the lateral rectrices crossed by a broad, white, median 

 and second terminal band ; under surface pale yellow ; bill and feet black : 

 whole length 5-0 inches, wing 2-1, tail 2-5. 



Hab. Bolivia, Peru, Interior of Brazil, Northern La Plata. 

 Examples of this species were obtained by Durnford in Tucuman 

 and Salta. 



145. STIGMATURA FLAVO-CINEREA (Burm.). 

 (LONG-TAILED TYRANT.) 



Phylloscartes flavo-cinereus, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. 455 (Mendoza) ; 

 Dor ing, Exp. al Rio Kegro, Zool. p. 42 (R. Negro, R. Colorado). Stigma- 

 tura flavo-cinerea, Hudson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 542 (Rio Negro) ; Scl. et 

 Salv. Nomencl. p. 46 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 606 (Catamarca). 



Description. Above greyish olive, lores and superciliary stripe whitish; 

 wings blackish, with whitish edgings to the coverts and outer secondaries ; tail 

 blackish ; outer web of the external rectrix and broad tips of the four external 

 pairs white ; beneath pale yellow ; bill and feet black : whole length 5-8 

 inches, wing 2'3, tail 3'0. Female similar. 



Hab. Argentine Republic, including N. Patagonia. 



This little bird inhabits the Mendoza and Patagonian districts, and 



