(LITTLE BROWN TYRANT.)
+Myiobius nævius+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 51; _White, P. Z. S._
1882, p. 607 (Buenos Ayres); _Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl._ vol.
viii. p. 201 (Entrerios).
_Description._--Above brown; lores whitish; concealed vertical crest
red or yellow; wings blackish, two bands across the coverts and
outer margins of external secondaries pale rufous or fulvous,
sometimes whitish; tail dark brown: beneath fulvous white; sides of
throat, breast, and flanks more or less distinctly flammulated with
brown; under wing-coverts pale fulvous; bill brown; lower mandible
whitish; feet blackish: whole length 4·7 inches, wing 2·5, tail 2·3.
_Female_ similar, but crest yellow or absent.
_Hab._ Veragua and Cisandean South America down to Argentine Republic.
This small Tyrant-bird is a summer visitor in the Plata district; it
is shy and solitary; frequents woods and plantations, and perpetually
utters, like the English Redstart, its sorrowful monotonous plaint, as
it flits about in the upper foliage of the trees.
The nest is placed in a bush or low tree, and built of various soft
materials compactly woven together, and the inside lined with feathers
or vegetable down. The eggs are four, pale cream-colour, with large,
well-defined spots of dark red.
The total length of this species is less than five inches. The
prevailing colour of the plumage is rufous brown on the upper, and
whitish brown on the under surface. Beneath the loose feathers of the
crown there is a concealed spot of orange-red.