(WING-BANDED TYRANT.)
+Empidochanes argentinus+, _Cab. J. f. O._ 1868, p. 196. +Empidonax
brunneus+, _Ridgw. N. A. B._ ii. p. 363 (Paraná). +Empidonax
bimaculatus+, _Scl. Ibis_, 1887, p. 65.
_Description._--Above umber-brown, more or less rufescent; lores
with a whitish spot; wings blackish, all the coverts broadly tipped
with pale rufous, forming two transverse bars; outer margins of
external secondaries of the same colour; tail brown, but not
rufescent; beneath dirty cinereous white, throat and belly brighter,
and with a yellowish tinge; under wing-coverts and inner margins of
wing-feathers ochraceous; upper mandible dark brown, lower whitish;
feet pale brown: whole length 5·0 inches, wing 2·6, tail 3·4.
_Hab._ S.E. Brazil, Bolivia, and N. Argentina.
This obscure species occurs in the northern wooded districts of
Argentina.