157. RHYNCHOCYCLUS SULPHURESCENS (Spix).

(SULPHURY TYRANT.)

+Rhynchocyclus sulphurescens+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 49;

_White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 607 (Misiones).

_Description._--Above olive-green, head washed with cinereous; lores

and line round the eye whitish; wings blackish brown, margined with

yellowish olive; tail dark brown, slightly edged with olive-green;

below sulphur-yellow tinged with olivaceous, throat more greyish;

middle of the belly rather brighter; under wing-coverts pale

sulphur-yellow; bill horn-colour; feet brown: whole length 5·2

inches, wing 2·6, tail 2·5. _Female_ similar.

_Hab._ S. America from Northern La Plata to Veragua.

Of this very widely diffused species specimens were obtained by White,

in June 1881, in the dense forests of Misiones.

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