Argentine Ornithology, Volume 1 (of 2): A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic.Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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Argentine Ornithology, Volume 1 (of 2): A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic.
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
Birds -- Argentina
+Tænioptera suiriri+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 460 (Tucuman).
+Empidagra suiriri+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 49; _iid. P. Z.
S._ 1869, p. 633 (Buenos Ayres); _Cab. J. f. O._ 1878, p. 197.
+Pachyrhamphus albescens+, _Gould, Zool. Beagle_, iii. p. 50, t.
xiv. (Buenos Ayres).
_Description._--Above cinereous; wings and tail blackish, all the
wing-coverts and outer secondaries broadly margined externally
with white; outer web of outer tail-feathers white; outer edges of
primaries and narrow ends of tail-feathers cinereous; below white,
under wing-coverts pale yellowish white; bill and feet black: whole
length 5·5 inches, wing 2·9, tail 2·5.
_Hab._ Argentine Republic, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
This species is stated by Prof. Burmeister to be found in Tucuman and
Northern Argentina. It also occurs near Buenos Ayres, where Hudson
obtained specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.
156. SUBLEGATUS GRISEOCULARIS, Sclater.
(GREY-EYED TYRANT.)
+Sublegatus griseocularis+, _Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S._ 1870, p. 17
(Mendoza).
_Description._--Above cinereous; wings and tail dark ashy brown,
margins of wing-coverts and outer secondaries whitish; below, throat
and breast pale cinereous white; belly and under wing-coverts pale
lemon-yellow; bill horn-colour; feet dark brown: whole length 5·0
inches, wing 2·8, tail 2·5. _Female_ similar.
_Hab._ Southern Peru and Western Argentina.
Specimens of this species were obtained by Weisshaupt near Mendoza.
157. RHYNCHOCYCLUS SULPHURESCENS (Spix).
(SULPHURY TYRANT.)
+Rhynchocyclus sulphurescens+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 49;
_White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 607 (Misiones).
_Description._--Above olive-green, head washed with cinereous; lores
and line round the eye whitish; wings blackish brown, margined with
yellowish olive; tail dark brown, slightly edged with olive-green;
below sulphur-yellow tinged with olivaceous, throat more greyish;
middle of the belly rather brighter; under wing-coverts pale
sulphur-yellow; bill horn-colour; feet brown: whole length 5·2
inches, wing 2·6, tail 2·5. _Female_ similar.
_Hab._ S. America from Northern La Plata to Veragua.
Of this very widely diffused species specimens were obtained by White,
in June 1881, in the dense forests of Misiones.
158. PITANGUS BOLIVIANUS (Lafr.).
(BIENTEVEO TYRANT.)
+Pitangus bellicosus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 50; _Durnford,
Ibis_, 1877, p. 178 (Buenos Ayres); _Gibson, Ibis_, 1880, p. 24
(Buenos Ayres); _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 607 (Catamarca);
_Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl._ vol. viii. p. 200 (Entrerios).
+Saurophagus sulphuratus+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 452.
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