Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Chocolate-vented Tyrant (Neoxolmis rufiventris) - HBW 9, p. 391

French: Moucherolle à ventre bai German: Hellschulter-Nonnentyrann Spanish: Monjita Chocolate

Taxonomy: T[yrannus] rufiventris Vieillot, 1823, Santa Lucía River, Uruguay.
Placed in Myiotheretes by early authors, and sometimes in Xolmis by more recent ones; syringeal morphology most similar to otherwise different Gubernetes and Muscipipra. Monotypic.

Distribution: Breeds SE Argentina (from S Río Negro) S, including extreme S Chile, to Tierra del Fuego; migrates N to C Argentina, Uruguay and SE Brazil.