Rough-legged Tyrannulet

11.5 cm. A stocky greenish bird with a rather short tail somewhat too long in the color sketches and long wings foraging in the canopy. Bill is heavy and short, the mandible with an orange or pinkish base. Above dull olive-green, some individuals paler the head with a broad white superciliary stripe terminating over the eye and dusky lores. Wings are blackish-grey with two distinct but not very obvious dull yellowish-white wingbars. The throat and belly are dirty lemon-yellow, the chest sometimes with olive flammulation. Tail black with white sides. <N Some individuals have a lighter colored front of head and loral area, and these may be young individuals pic 2 . Some individuals appear very light and washed out in November.<N See also the picture of this species in Clay ^75 although in this picture the tail is much too long The call is diagnostic. A series of high "psiiit" notes with the quality of the calls of /Myiozetetes similis usually 10-15, 0.5-1 sec apart, "psiit.... ..psiit...... psiit... psiit.. psiit... psiit.. psiit.. ..psiit.. psiit.. psiit....". Forages usually high above the ground. Presumably an upward hover-gleaner and frugivorous like /Phyllomyias fasciatus ^74 . I have seen this species perch-gleaning moving rapidly through the canopy. Nest is an open cup ^108, ^109 . Uncommon in tall primary or secondary forest, parks etc. Throughout, from sea level to about 1300 meters ^44 . It is not clear whether the specimens seen in spring in Estado Rio de Janeiro and further north are migrants from the south. Pinto lists bird from<8E>Iporanga, Bananal, and<8E>Caraguatatuba Estado S<C4>o Paulo . I encountered this species in<8E>PE Jacupiranga, Ubatuba Estado S<C4>o Paulo and<8E>Itatiaia Estado Rio de Janeiro . E. O. Willis pers. comm. observed one as far inland as at Serra das Rosas near <8E>Franca . 3067 Call or song, 1x repeated. Rio Escuro, near Ubatuba, 10<10>13<10>99. Sunny, 27<91>C. Forest border. With /Chiroxiphia caudata, Ramphocelus bresilius .: 10120 Calls, song. Cornell Cat 30163. Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, 11<10>12<10>82. With /Tijuca atra, Drymophila rubricollis, Chamaeza ruficauda, Thamnophilus caerulescens . Recording by T. A. Parker, III.: 16251 >adult: 11474 >. This individual has whitish lores and front and might be an immature, Serra Mantiqueira, 10<10>22<10>93.: A68 . Secondary forest. Itatiaia, below the Hotel Do Ype. Biome of /Phyllomyias burmeisteri .: