121. ARUNDINICOLA LEUCOCEPHALA (Linn.).

(WHITE-HEADED TYRANT.)

+Arundinicola leucocephala+, _d'Orb. Voy., Ois._ p. 334 (Corrientes).

_Description._--Black; whole head and neck and a patch on the flanks

white; bill horn-colour, base of lower mandible white; feet black:

whole length 5·0 inches, wing 2·5, tail 1·8. _Female_ above

cinereous; front and sides of head whitish; tail black; beneath

white, flanks and under wing-coverts cinerascent.

_Hab._ Colombia and southwards to Argentina.

This species, which is of wide distribution, was met with in Corrientes

by d'Orbigny.

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