Contopus brachytarsus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 52; White, P. Z. S. 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 (Müll.).
(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 procured by White in Catamarca.