(SHORT-BILLED TYRANT.)
+Contopus brachyrhynchus+, _Cab. J. f. O._ 1883, p. 214.
_Description._--Above cinereous, lores whitish; wings and tail
blackish, with slight whitish edgings to the wing-coverts and outer
secondaries; beneath paler, whitish in the middle of the belly;
flanks with a concealed white patch; bill above brown, beneath pale;
feet black: whole length 7·0 inches, wing 4·0, tail 3·2.
_Hab._ Northern Argentina.
Herr Schulz, who discovered this species near Tucuman, tells us that it
is a summer visitor, and is usually seen perched on the tops of the
highest trees on the look-out for insects.