Black-capped Becard

13 cm. Male has a black cap with a blue hue and a gray supra-loral area. Back gray with thick black stripes. Rump gray. Wings black with white scapulars, two white wing bars and white margins to the flight feathers. Below gray. Tail black with white tips on the outer rectrices. <NThe female is like the male, but has a rufous crown which differentiates it from the female /Pachyramphus polychopterus and a white supra-loral spot. Shoulders are olive-green. Below yellowish-white. The most common call is a fast "do-wi-do-wit......do-wi-do-witt......" and variations thereof. It also has calls similar to those of /Pachyramphus polychopterus cuts 2 and 4 and they are sometimes not differentiable. Foraging in the canopy of large forest trees. Sometimes in mixed bird parties. A becard of the humid forest canopy. Rather common in the interior of humid primary and mature secondary forest. Seems to require large tracts of intact and undisturbed forest. Throughout. We recorded it from sea level in the Serra do Mar Ubatuba<8E>and the Corisco Trail near<8E>Picinguaba , PE Jacupiranga, and from<8E>Jureia<8E>near Peruibe. Pinto reports it from<8E>Sepetiba<8E>west of Rio de Janeiro and from<8E>S<C4>o Sebasti<C4>o, S<C4>o Paulo state. To 500 meters. 2004 Song, 10<10>18<10>94 PE Jacupiranga State Park, Caverna do Diabo. With /Sclerurus scansor .: 11043 Call. Rio Escuro, near Ubatuba, 10<10>13<10>99. Sunny, 27<91>C. Forest.: 3582 Call. 10<10>15<10>99, Corisco trail, Picinguaba, east of Ubatuba. Sunny, 30<91>C. Primary forest. With /Chiroxiphia caudata, Procnias nudicollis, Tolmomyias sulphurescens, Picumnus cirratus .: 14555 Call, 1x repeated. 10<10>18<10>99, Serra da Mantiqueira, above Hotel do Ype, above 1600 meters . Clouds, foggy, showers, 23<91>C. Primary forest, bamboo.: 8982 Song-call. Cornell Cat 22028. Nova Lombardia Reserve, Espirito Santo, 10<10>27<10>80. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.: 8848 >. Male: 11251 >. Female: