(SHORT-FOOTED TYRANT.)
+Contopus brachytarsus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 52; _White, P.
Z. S._ 1882, p. 608 (Salta).
_Description._--Above dark plumbeous olive; crown darker, blackish;
wings and tail blackish; the wing-coverts and outer secondaries more
or less edged with whitish; beneath dirty white, clearer on the
throat and middle of the belly, which latter has sometimes an
olivaceous tinge; bill above blackish, beneath yellowish white; feet
blackish; first primary shorter than the fifth: whole length 5·3
inches, wing 2·9, tail 2·5. _Female_ similar.
_Hab._ Central and South America.
White found this widely ranging Tyrant "not uncommon in the forests of
Salta."