Olive-green Tanager

20 cm. A large, slender tanager with a long tail and oblong dark-gray bill. Uniform olive-yellow green, lighter and yellower below. Sexes alike. A buzzy high pitched "sreeeee" and variations thereof, a hard "sreeiii sreeiii". Song described as Moves through the forest in single species flocks up to 40 individuals and forages in the canopy of rainforest, searching bromeliads and leaves and hopping along leafy branches. Sometimes also works through dense tangles. Rio de Janeiro, November ^159 . Regularly observed in large humid forested areas, primary and secondary rainforest and forest edge. Throughout the littoral and Serras, from sea level to about 1300 meters ^133 . 7341 Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11<10>30<10>97. Sunny, 27<91>C. Secondary forest.: 3431 Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11<10>30<10>97. Sunny, 27<91>C. Primary forest.: 1273 Calls. Fazenda Intervales, 11<10>30<10>97. Sunny, 27<91>C. Primary forest. With /Cacicus haemorrhous, Procnias nudicollis .: 13783 Calls. Rio Escuro, near Ubatuba, 10<10>13<10>99. Sunny, 27<91>C. Forest. With /Procnias nudicollis .: 11557 >: