Cattle Tyrant

18 cm. Looks like a kingbird running around on the ground. Legs long. Iris dark red. Crown gray with a concealed red patch. Blackish eye stripe. Above brownish-green. Wings and tail dark olive. Throat white and the rest of the undersides bright yellow. Song is a fast series of high "tik" notes similar to those of /Tyrannus melancholicus . Also gives single "tik" notes more or less tied together in a slower sequence. Terrestrial. A ground foraging specialist which performs perch-to-ground sallies, often from the back of animals, and picks up prey from the ground ^74 . Common in open country, cities and towns, pastures. Perches on top of cows and horses. Has without doubt benefited from wholesale deforestation. Throughout, in the interior and at the coast. To 800 meters. Is apparently not related to the kingbirds ^44 . 6945 Song and calls. Serra da Canastra in S<C4>o Roque de Minas. 11<10>11<10>98. Cloudy, 25<91>C. Town courtyards. With /Passer domesticus .: 15449 Calls. Pirapora, 11<10>13<10>98. Sunny, 30<91>C. 0pen country near river. With /Pachyramphus viridis, Thryothorus longirostris .: 2531 Song. Cornell Cat 20041. Fazenda S<C4>o Francisco, Lagoinhas, Tijucas, Parana, 12<10>29<10>78. With /Attila phoenicurus . Recording by W. Belton.: 4196 Call. Cornell Cat 25409. Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, 8<10>1<10>1961. With /Xiphocolaptes major . Recording by W. Belton.: 1463 >: