153. ELAINEA STREPERA, Cab.

(NOISY TYRANT.)

+Elainea strepera+, _Cab. J. f. O._ 1883, p. 215.

_Description._--Above dark greyish olive; head slightly crested,

with a white basal spot; eye-ring white; wings and tail blackish,

tips of wing-coverts rufous, slight margins of wing and

tail-feathers olivaceous; beneath cinereous; middle of belly white;

flanks olivaceous; under wing-coverts pale cinereous; bill dark

brown, pale at the base; feet blackish: whole length 5·6 inches,

wing 2·9, tail 2·7.

_Hab._ Tucuman.

Dr. Cabanis established this species, which is unknown to us, on

specimens obtained by Herr Schulz in the woods of Tucuman. It is said

to have a loud voice, and to feed on berries.

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