(ROBIN-LIKE WOOD-HEWER.)
+Sittosomus olivaceus+, _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 613 (Salta).
+Sittasomus erithacus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 66.
_Description._--Above olive-green, tinged with chestnut on the back,
rump, and upper wing-coverts; wings black, the basal part of the
inner webs of the secondaries fulvous yellow, forming a well-marked
transverse bar; outer webs and broad tips of inner secondaries and
whole of outer secondaries chestnut; tail and upper tail-coverts
chestnut; beneath yellowish olive, brighter on the throat and
breast; under wing-coverts fulvous yellow; under tail-coverts pale
chestnut; bill and feet black: whole length 6·2 inches, wing 3·0,
tail 3·0. _Female_ similar.
_Hab._ South America from Colombia to Northern Argentina.
This is a straggler from the north, a specimen of which was obtained by
White near Oran in 1880.