Rostrum capite brevius, rectum, depressum, basi setis numerosis nigris obsessum; mandibulâ superiore emarginatâ, inferiorem obtegente; naribus rotundatis patulis. Caput subcristatum. Alæ longæ; remige prima secundum tertiamque longissimas subæquales fere æquante. Tarsi mediocres, anticè scutellati; digitis lateralibus inæqualibus, exteriore longiore. Cauda mediocris quadrata.
Mr. Gould observes, that “the males of nearly all the members of this group (which may be considered either as a distinct genus or sub-genus of Myiobius), have the crown of the head and greater part of the under surface scarlet. Four species were obtained.—Pyrocephalus parvirostris, (Gould), and Muscicapa coronata, (Auct.), may be taken as types.
1. Pyrocephalus parvirostris. Gould.
Plate VI.
Le Churrinche, Azara. No. 177.
P. suprà fuscus; capite et subtus nitidè puniceis; rectricibus exterioribus tectricumque
et secundariorum apicibus griseo-marginatis.
Long. tot. 5⁵⁄₁₂ unc.; alæ, 13¹⁄₁₂; caudæ, 2⁵⁄₁₂; tarsi, ⁷⁄₁₂; rost., ⁶⁄₁₂.
Birds. Pl. 6.
Pyrocephalus parvirostris.