15 6 TYRANNISE. 



165. CONTOPUS BRACHYTARSUS, Scl. 

 (SHORT-FOOTED TYRANT.) 



Contopus brachytarsus, Scl et Salv. Nomencl. p. 52 j White, P. Z. 8. 1882, 



p. 608 (Salta). 



Description. Above dark plumbeous olive ; crown darker, blackish ; wings and 

 tail blackish ; the wing-coverts and outer secondaries more or less edged with 

 whitish ; beneath dirty white, clearer on the throat and middle of the belly, 

 which latter has sometimes an olivaceous tinge ; bill above blackish, beneath 

 yellowish white ; feet blackish ; first primary shorter than the fifth : whole 

 length 5-3 inches, wing 2-9, tail 2-5. Female similar. 



Hab. Central and South America. 



White found this widely ranging Tyrant "not uncommon in the 

 forests of Salta/' 



166. MYIARCHUS TYRANNULUS (Miill.). 

 (RUSTY-TAILED TYRANT.) 



Suiriri pardo y roxo, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 143. Myiarchus erythrocercus, 



Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 52. 



Description. Above brownish cinereous, crown rather darker ; wings blackish, 

 primaries narrowly edged with rufous, secondaries and coverts more broadly 

 with dirty white ; tail blackish, all the lateral rectrices with the greater part of 

 the inner web rufous, leaving only a narrow blackish border alongside the 

 shaft ; beneath, throat and breast pale cinereous ; belly and under wing-coverts 

 pale sulphur-yellow ; inner margin of rectrices pale rufous ; bill dark horn- 

 colour ; feet blackish : whole length 7*4 inches, wing 3-8, tail 3-2. Female 

 similar. 



Hab. South America down to Argentina. 



An example of this species, now in the British Museum, was pro- 

 cured by White in Cat am area. 



167. MYIARCHUS FEROX (Om.). 

 (FIERCE TYRANT.) 



Myiarchus tyrannulus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 52 ; Durnford, Ibis, 1878, p. 61 

 (Buenos Ayres) ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 608 (Salta) j Narrows, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Cl. vol. viii. p. 202 (Entrerios). Myiarchus ferocior, Cab. J.f. O. 

 1883, p. 214 (Tucuman). 



