138. EUSCARTHMUS MARGARITACEIVENTRIS (d'Orb. et Lafr.).

(PEARLY-BELLIED TYRANT.)

+Todirostrum margaritaceiventer+, _d'Orb. Voy., Ois._ p. 316

(Corrientes). +Euscarthmus margaritaceiventris+, _Scl. et Salv.

Nomencl._ p. 45; _Salvin, Ibis_, 1880, p. 357 (Tucuman). +Triccus

margaritiventris+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 456 (Paraná).

_Description._--Above olive-green, wings and tail blackish edged

with olive-green; whole head above, including sides and back of

neck, dark cinereous; beneath pearly white, passing into pale

cinereous on the sides; under wing-coverts pale yellowish, flanks

tinged with olivaceous; bill hazel; feet red: whole length 4·5

inches, wing 2·1, tail 1·9.

_Hab._ Paraguay, Northern La Plata, Bolivia, S. Peru, and S.E. Brazil.

This species, discovered by d'Orbigny in Corrientes, was also met with

near Paraná by Prof. Burmeister, and by Durnford in Tucuman.

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