(THIN-TAILED TYRANT.)
Pachyrhamphus minimus, Gould, Zool. Voy. Beagle, iii. p. 61, pl. xv. (Monte Video). Habrura minima, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 40; Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1878, p. 197 (Cordova); Scl. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 460 (Cordova).
Description.—Above sandy brown, with a dark-greyish tinge on the head, which is subcrested and has the vertical feathers white at their bases; lores and eye-region whitish; wings and tail blackish, edged with sandy brown, which forms in some specimens well-marked wing-bands; beneath pale sandy ochraceous, more rufous on the flanks; throat more or less freckled with black; bill and feet dark brown: whole length 4·0 inches, wing 1·9, tail 1·7. Female similar, but without the black markings on the throat.
Hab. Northern La Plata, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, and British Guiana.
Examples of this species were obtained by Dr. Döring near Cordova.
[143.] CULICIVORA STENURA (Temm.).
(NARROW-TAILED TYRANT.)
Culicivora stenura, White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 605 (Misiones).
Description.—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 3·7 inches, wing 1·7; tail, ext. rectr. 1·3, med. 1·9.
Hab. S.E. Brazil.