(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.