Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant

10 cm. Iris dark brown. Above olive-green with a broad light supraloral stripe and white eye ring. Tertials with broad white borders. Below yellowish with olive-green streaks on the throat and olive clouding on the chest. Usually a low "tir.r.r.r.r.r.r.r" , sometimes at various different pitches or descending in pitch. Occurs in the lower and middle stratus of forest interior. Forages by performing upward strikes from a perch. Does not follow mixed flocks. An endemic tyrant flycatcher of the forest interior. Uncommon to fairly common in the interior of secondary and primary rain forest. Throughout the Serra do Mar area, Rio de Janeiro, Parati, Ubatuba, Serra dos Org<C4>os<8E>and in the<8E>Reserva Ecol<D4>gica Guapiac<DB> <8E>. Up to 1000 meters ^44 . 2435 Calls. Picinguaba, east of Ubatuba, 11<10>20<10>98. Cloudy, light rain, 20<91>C. Secondary forest. With /Attila rufus .: 12226 Calls. Rio Escuro, near Ubatuba, 10<10>13<10>99. Sunny, 27<91>C. Forest. With /Procnias nudicollis, Myiodynastes maculatus .: 6929 Call. Rio Escuro, near Ubatuba, 10<10>13<10>99. Sunny, 27<91>C. Forest. With /Myiodynastes maculatus, Procnias nudicollis .: 5470 Calls. 10<10>15<10>99, Corisco trail, Picinguaba, east of Ubatuba. Sunny, 30<91>C. Primary forest. With /Dysithamnus stictothorax at the beginning.: 15274 Call. Cornell Cat 19954, Fazenda do Pontal, Rio Grande do Sul, 10<10>18<10>78. Recording by W. Belton.: 224 First part-Calls, 11<10>22<10>98, Rio Escuro near Ubatuba. Sunny, 20<91>C. Secondary forest. <NSecond part-Calls, 10<10>30<10>00, Reserva da Serra do Mar, near Cachoeira de Macacu. Cloudy, 25<91>C.: 11584 >: