Blue-billed Black-Tyrant

15 cm. <NMale is glossy black with no white in the wings. Bill bluish with black tip. Eye bright red. <NFemale has a rufous crown and rump. Bill black. Eye brown. Back brown. Wings black with two buff wing bars. Below buffy-white with coarse brown streaks. Crissum rufous. Tail black, the feathers edged rufous. Usually silent. Makes a single "clik" note, several times repeated. Usually remains within dense vegetation, but sometimes sits exposed and engages in aerial hawking. Also performs near ground sallies. Often quite inconspicuous. The common black flycatcher of the uplands. Uncommon to common in brushy campo, forest border and low open forest. Serra do Mar Serra Bocaina, Serra de Caraguatuba , Serra Mantiqueira Itatiaia, Campos do Jord<C4>o and<8E>Serra dos Org<C4>os ^15 . To 2200 meters ^44 . 13914 Call. Cornell Cat 30160. Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, 11<10>12<10>82. With /Hemitriccus obsoletus, Tijuca atra, Cyclarhis gujanensis, Leptotila verreauxi, Hylopezus nattereri, Saltator similis . Recording by T. A. Parker, III.: 3827 >. Male: 8272 >. Female: A9 . Female. Serra da Mantiqueira. Photograph by Fritz Mueller.: 7437 . Male. Photograph by Fritz Mueller.: