(SOLITARY TYRANT.)
+Myiodynastes solitarius+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 50; _Durnford,
Ibis_, 1877, p. 178, et 1878, p. 60 (Buenos Ayres); _White, P. Z.
S._ 1882, p. 607 (Salta); _Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl._ vol.
viii. p. 201 (Entrerios).
_Description._--Above grey, thickly covered with numerous black
shaft-spots; concealed vertical crest yellow; lores and sides of the
head black, superciliaries white; wings blackish, primaries slightly
edged with rufous, coverts and secondaries margined externally
with greyish white; tail blackish, with narrow external margins of
ferruginous; below greyish white, with numerous black striations;
belly and under wing-coverts tinged with yellowish and but slightly
striated; bill brown, feet blackish: whole length 7·5 inches, wing
4·4, tail 3·4.
_Hab._ Brazil, Paraguay, Buenos Ayres.
Durnford tells us that this species is a summer visitor to the
neighbourhood of Buenos Ayres, but not very common. White met with
it in the forests of Campo Santo in November; and Barrows obtained
specimens among the Paradise-trees in the Plaza at Concepcion, in the
same month of the year.