(SORRY TYRANT.)
Leptopogon tristis, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 254; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 606 (Misiones).
Description.—Above olive; cap rather darker; wings and tail blackish, margined with olive, the two rows of wing-coverts and three or four outer 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.
Hab. 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 Reise, ii. p. 454. Elainea albiceps, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 48; Durnford, Ibis, 1878, p. 60 (Buenos Ayres); Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl. vol. viii. p. 200 (Entrerios); 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.
Hab. Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guiana, Brazil, Argentina, Chili, Patagonia.