Streaked Flycatcher

20 cm. A common large and strongly streaked tyrant flycatcher of woodlands. Bill large, the mandible with a flesh-colored base. Head streaked with a yellow semiconcealed coronal patch and a white superciliary stripe. Ear coverts and eye stripe starting above bill blackish. A white malar streak paralleled by a grayish stripe below. Above brownish, streaked darker, the rump and tail rufous-brown. Wings blackish with rufous edging to the flight feathers. Whitish below, becoming pale yellow on belly, and broadly streaked dusky. Most frequent calls are a "hi-chup" and a sharp "zick...zick..." or, "zwei....zwe-i". A pair suddenly utters together a chattering series of hard calls, see cut 5 and also cut 5 of /Legatus leucophaius . A frequently uttered call at dawn or dusk is a repeated "twi-twe-tle" with emphasis on the first syllable. Perches in the upper and middle stratum of forest trees. Performs aerial hawks and mostly upward strikes from a perch within the canopy. Also frugivorous. Nest is in crevices of trees ^44 . More or less common in primary and secondary humid or drier forest and borders, clearings and in mangroves. Throughout, up to 1500 meters ^44 . 14083 Call, Ilha do Cardoso, 10<10>21<10>94. Sunny, 25<91>C. Forest edge. With /Thryothorus longirostris, Schiffornis virescens , wing snapping of /Chiroxiphia caudata, Leptopogon amaurocephalus .: 16293 Dawn song. PE Jacupiranga, Caverna do Diabo, 11<10>5<10>95. Sunny, 25<91>C. Secondary open forest edge: 4269 Dawn song. Fazenda Intervales, 11<10>30<10>97. Sunny, 27<91>C. Secondary forest.: 10044 Call. Pirapora, 11<10>13<10>98. Sunny, 30<91>C. Gallery forest.: 5974 Call. Rio Escuro, near Ubatuba, 10<10>13<10>99. Sunny, 27<91>C. Forest. With /Leptopogon amaurocephalus, Chiroxiphia caudata .: 9464 Call, "twiit --twiit". Jureia-Peruibe, 10<10>12<10>99. Cloudy, 22<91>C. Primary forest. With /Attila rufus, Dysithamnus stictothorax, Myrmotherula unicolor .: 4185 >: