Drab-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant

11 cm. A tyrant of the highlands associated with bamboo thickets in humid forest. Above olive-gray with a whitish-gray eye ring and a whitish round spot in front of the eye. Throat and breast gray. Belly grayish white with yellow on the crissum. A high "tirrrrrrrr", "zick tirrrrrrr " repeated, "zirrrrik tik" and variations thereof. Does not produce high dry "tik" sequences like /Hemitriccus obsoletus . Forages by performing upward strikes in dense undergrowth of forest. Nest is a pocket with side entrance and the side entrance has a little roof. ^77 . Reasonably common in undergrowth of dense humid primary and secondary forest where bamboo is dominant. More frequently heard than seen. Rarer in the Serra do Mar. Between about 600-1600 meters in the<8E>Serra Mantiqueira, Serra dos Org<C4>os<8E>. 7993 Calls. Serra da Mantiqueira, Tres Picos trail, Itatiaia NP, 11<10>5<10>93 Sunny, 20<91>C. Primary forest with bamboo. With /Trogon viridis, Basileuterus culicivorus .: 12431 Calls. 10<10>18<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, above Hotel do Ype, above 1600 meters . Clouds, foggy, showers, 23<91>C. Primary forest with plenty of bamboo.: 9115 Calls. 10<10>19<10>99, Serra Mantiquera, Itatiaia NP. Cloudy, rain, 22<91>C. Montane forest with bamboo thickets. With /Trogon viridis .: 15082 Call. Cornell Cat 32074. Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, 11<10>13<10>82. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.: 7533 >: