Tyrant-flycatchers (Tyrannidae)

Short-tailed Field-tyrant (Muscigralla brevicauda) - HBW 9, p. 405

French: Moucherolle à queue courte German: Stummelschwanztyrann Spanish: Dormilona Colicorta

Taxonomy: M[uscigralla] brevicauda d’Orbigny and Lafresnaye, 1837, Tacna, Peru.
Placed by early authors in Cotingidae or Formicariidae, on basis of tarsal scutes. Affinities within present family unclear; placed in or near Muscisaxicola by some, but coronal patch, long legs with aberrant scutellation, bare tibia, wing and tail shapes support current monotypic genus. Monotypic.

Distribution: SW Ecuador (Manabí S to Loja), N & W Peru (Amazonas, and down coast to Tacna) and N Chile (Arica); one specimen from SW Colombia (Gorgona I).