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secondaries with clear yellowish-white apical spots; beneath pale sulphur- 

 yellow; under wing-coverts yellow; inner margins of wing-feathers whitish ; 

 bill horn-colour; feet brown : whole length 4*4 inches, wing 2*1, tail 2-1. 



Hob. Northern La Plata and Bolivia. 



This bird was obtained by White near San Javier, Misiones, 

 " amongst the lofty trees on the river-banks. " White believed that he 

 also met with it in the Sierra de Totoral. 



152. ELAINEA ALBICEPS (d'Orb. et Lafr.). 

 (WHITE-CRESTED TYRANT.) 



Elainea modesta, Burm. La-Plata Iteise, ii p. 454. Elainea albiceps, Scl. 



et Salv. Nomencl. p. 48 ; Durnford, Ibis, 1878, p. GO (Buenos Ayres) ; Barrows, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. CL vol. viii. p. 200 (Entrerios) j White, P. Z. S. 1882, 

 p. 606 (Buenos Ayres). 



Description. Above dark ashy brown, with a slight olivaceous tinge on the 

 rump ; head slightly darker, with a more or less concealed white vertical spot ; 

 wings and tail blackish brown ; tips of wing-coverts, forming two transverse 

 bands, and outer margins of exterior secondaries dirty white ; rest of wing- 

 feathers and tail-feathers slightly margined with lighter colour; below nearly 

 uniform pale cinereous, whiter on the throat and middle of the belly ; under 

 wing-coverts slightly tinged with yellowish ; bill brownish ; feet black : whole 

 length 6-0 inches, wing 3-2, tail 3'0. Female similar. 



Hob. Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guiana, Brazil, Argentina, Chili, Pata- 

 gonia. 



A widely spread species, very common near Buenos Ayres according 

 to White, where it is found in the clumps of trees. 



153. ELAINEA STREPERA, Cab. 

 (NOISY TYRANT.) 



Elainea strepera, Cab. J.f. O. 1883, p. 215. 



Description. Above dark greyish olive ; head slightly crested, with a white 

 basal spot; eye-ring white; wings and tail blackish, tips of wing-coverts 

 rufous, slight margins of wing and tail-feathers olivaceous ; beneath cinereous ; 

 middle of belly white ; flanks olivaceous ; under wing-coverts pale cinereous ; 

 bill dark brown, pale at the base ; feet blackish : whole length 5'6 inches, wing 

 2-9, tail 2-7. 



Hob. Tucuman. 



Dr. Cabanis established this species, which is unknown to us, on 



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