Brown Tanager

18 cm. A large rusty-brown tanager with a thick dark bill. Buff brown above. Wings and tail rusty. Crown and stripe through the eye dark gray brown. Forehead and superciliary rufous-buffy. below cinnamon-buff. Call a high pitched "zit . Song a high pitched "si si sisis sisisi" and similar listen to vocalization 1 . Easily confused with /Philydor rufus in behavior and coloration: forages through the outer leafy branches of the crowns of high trees for fruits and insects. October ^159 . Uncommon in primary and tall secondary forest. In Estado Rio de Janeiro found in the<8E>Serra dos Org<C4>os Petropolis, Teresopolis , <8E>Serra Mantiqueira Itatiaia , <8E>Nova Friburgo, <8E>Macae ^40 . In Estado S<C4>o Paulo in the<8E>Serra do Mar Serra Bocaina , <8E>Sete Barras, <8E>PE Carlos Botelho, <8E>Fazenda Intervales, <8E>PE Jacupiranga, <8E>Itarar<CA> ^119 . To 1600 meters Seems to mimic /Philydor rufus . 9930 Calls, Itatiaia National Park, Estado Rio de Janeiro, LNS22089, recorded by T. Parker, Jr. with /Cacicus haemorhous .: 9280 Song, Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, LNS 32198, recorded by T. Parker, Jr. with /Saltator similis, Troglodytes musculus, Basileuterus culicivorus .: 2308 Song, calls, Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, LNS 32201, recorded by T. Parker, Jr., with /Megarhynchus pitangua, Troglodytes aedon, Attila rufus, Saltator similis, Zonotrichia capensis : 5673 >: