166. MYIARCHUS TYRANNULUS (Müll.).

(RUSTY-TAILED TYRANT.)

+Suiriri pardo y roxo+, _Azara, Apunt._ ii. p. 143. +Myiarchus

erythrocercus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 52.

_Description._--Above brownish cinereous, crown rather darker;

wings blackish, primaries narrowly edged with rufous, secondaries

and coverts more broadly with dirty white; tail blackish, all the

lateral rectrices with the greater part of the inner web rufous,

leaving only a narrow blackish border alongside the shaft; beneath,

throat and breast pale cinereous; belly and under wing-coverts pale

sulphur-yellow; inner margin of rectrices pale rufous; bill dark

horn-colour; feet blackish: whole length 7·4 inches, wing 3·8, tail

3·2. _Female_ similar.

_Hab._ South America down to Argentina.

An example of this species, now in the British Museum, was procured by

White in Catamarca.

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