Many-colored Rush-Tyrant

11.5 cm. A colorful tyrant flycatchers of reedy marshes. Male has a black head, a dark red crown patch and long thin yellow superciliary stripe. Neck dark red brown. Wings black with a single white wing bar and white tips to the tertials forming a distinct white patch. Bright yellow below with a black open band across the breast. Crissum red. Tail black with white edges to the outer tail feathers. <NFemale is duller. Song is a loud "witchuk arr witchuck arr...arr arr..." on ^38 . Call is a repeated "wiuk....wiuk....wiuk...." Forages in reed beds of lake edges and swamps. Constantly moving around, flying above the reeds and from reed patch to patch, it is conspicuous and quite easy to observe. According to Fitzpatrick a perch gleaner. In reed beds of lake shores and marshes. In this habitat it is usually not uncommon. Mostly extralimital in Rio Grande do Sul and Misiones. Pinto found it in June, 1893 , December, 1898 and August, 1936 near <8E>Iguape, Estado S<C4>o Paulo but there are no recent records. Sick mentions Rio de Janeiro without further referring to the location and suggests that most individuals found in Brazil are migrants. However eggs of this species were collected in Iguape in the early part of the last century ^77 which raises the possibility that this species might regularly breed near Iguape. 3065 Laguna Huacarpay, reed beds, Cuzco, Peru, 7<10>15<10>01. Sunny, 25<91>C.: 834 >: