Mouse-colored Tyrannulet

10 cm. A thick-billed grayish crestless tyrannulet of the interior. Bigger than Camptostoma. Bill black and rather thick, base of mandible horn colored. Olive-brown to gray-brown above with a whitish superciliary stripe. Wings grayish-black with two buffy wingbars. Throat white. Below light brownish-gray with a light yellow belly. Call is a characteristic "jewjewjew" up to 6 and 7 times. Song is a hasty, slightly ascending "jijijijijiJIJIdede" with emphasis on the third from the last syllable cut 1 . A upward-hover gleaner and perch gleaner. Also a fruit eater, as the thick bill would suggest ^74 . Forages in shrubs and low trees. Builds a cup nest ^44 . Uncommon in open woodland and borders, gardens, gallery forest, and scrub. More common in the arid interior, but present in the Angra dos Reis area close to the shore. Spotty. In Estado S<C4>o Paulo near<8E>Rio Claro, but certainly closer to the shore in suitable habitat. <8E>Angra dos Reis, maybe more common in Estado Rio de Janeiro. Up to 1000 meters ^44 . 997 Call. Near Itirapina, 11<10>12<10>95. Sunny, 30<91>C. Dry forest remnant, cerrad<C4>o. With /Turdus rufiventris .: 4706 Song. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 11<10>20<10>96. Sunny, 25<91>C. Open cerrado with scrub, some trees.: 1486 Call, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 11<10>21<10>96. Sunny, 28<91>C. Open cerrado.: 538 Calls. Pereque, near Angra dos Reis, 10<10>17<10>99. Sunny, 30<91>C. Open scrub, secondary forest.: 9471 >: 233 >: