21 cm. A conspicuous large flycatcher of the campos. Iris red. Light gray above with a broad white superciliary stripe reaching the eye. Wings black with large white area see pic 2 , white edges of tertial flight feathers and wing coverts with white tips. A conspicuous black malar stripe. Below gray. Throat and belly white. Tail black, broadly tipped white.
A sequence of high "plit"s increasing in pitch and speed of sequence cut 1 . In addition, Ridgely mentions a pretty, whistled song-"peee, preeu" . Sick mentions a "PEEa".
Conspicuously perching on fence posts, small trees an bushes, engages in perch to ground sallies and aerial hawks. Has a strong flight adapted to the sometimes high winds.
Quite common in any type of open country. Around farms, campo and cerrado and has expanded to the coast due to deforestation. On migration appears in metropolitan areas ^30 .
Throughout. Up to over 2000 meters in the mountains. <8E>Serra Mantiqueira ^15 . On the altiplano recorded from<8E>Itapetininga<8E>and <8E>S<C4>o Miguel Arcanjo ^40 , but can show up anywhere. Also at sea level near<8E>Iguape ^40 , Rio de Janeiro ^30 .
294 Song. Cornell Cat 19876. Cabanha S<C4>o Martim, Bage, Rio Grande do Sul, 1<10>12<10>77. Recording by W. Belton.:
1174 >: 2071 Flight pattern:
Character status: partial decoder; angle-bracket byte markers are preserved
Recovered structure; field assignment may be heuristic
Structured account sections
Description
21 cm. A conspicuous large flycatcher of the campos. Iris red. Light gray above with a broad white superciliary stripe reaching the eye. Wings black with large white area see pic 2 , white edges of tertial flight feathers and wing coverts with white tips. A conspicuous black malar stripe. Below gray. Throat and belly white. Tail black, broadly tipped white.
Voice
A sequence of high "plit"s increasing in pitch and speed of sequence cut 1 . In addition, Ridgely mentions a pretty, whistled song-"peee, preeu" . Sick mentions a "PEEa".
Behavior
Conspicuously perching on fence posts, small trees an bushes, engages in perch to ground sallies and aerial hawks. Has a strong flight adapted to the sometimes high winds.
Habitat and status
Quite common in any type of open country. Around farms, campo and cerrado and has expanded to the coast due to deforestation. On migration appears in metropolitan areas ^30 .
Distribution
Throughout. Up to over 2000 meters in the mountains. <8E>Serra Mantiqueira ^15 . On the altiplano recorded from<8E>Itapetininga<8E>and <8E>S<C4>o Miguel Arcanjo ^40 , but can show up anywhere. Also at sea level near<8E>Iguape ^40 , Rio de Janeiro ^30 .
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative
Release-specific historical evidence — the three releases remain separate; none is canonical
Release history
This work was published as three separate releases: the Disc 3 release first, the Disc 2 release later, and the Disc 1 release in 2011. Differences between them are historical release differences and are never merged.
Disc 3in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 2in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
Disc 1 (2011)in this release's bird list(aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1)
The account in the Disc 1 (2011) revision
The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.
Historical taxonomy
WORLD
xolmis cinerea
Gray Monjita
Tyrannidae,Fluvicolinae
Fluvicoline Flycatchers
CLEMENTS
xolmis cinerea
Gray Monjita
Tyrannidae,Fluvicolinae
Fluvicoline Flycatchers
AOU_HM
xolmis cinerea
Gray Monjita
Tyrannidae,Fluvicolinae
Fluvicoline Flycatchers
Recordings
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294 Song. Cornell Cat 19876. Cabanha S<C4>o Martim, Bage, Rio Grande do Sul, 1<10>12<10>77. Recording by W. Belton.
