Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant

The buff-breasted tody-tyrant is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a darkish olive crown and pale creamy buff face. Their back and rump are darkish olive. Their wings are dusky olive with wide creamy edges on the innermost secondaries. Their tail is dusky olive. Their throat and breast are pale creamy buff, their belly more whitish, and their crissum pale yellow. They have an orange iris, a gray maxilla, a paler mandible, and gray to pale pinkish legs and feet.

The buff-breasted tody-tyrant has a disjunct distribution in northeastern Brazil, intermittently in the states of Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, and Alagoas. It inhabits semi-humid forest both primary and secondary in the highlands. It occurs only on the slopes of isolated ridges between 600 and 1,000 m (2,000 and 3,300 ft).

The buff-breasted tody-tyrant feeds on insects. It typically forages singly and is not known to join mixed-species feeding flocks. It mostly forages from the forest's understory to its middle levels, often in dense vine tangles, between about 2 and 5 m (7 and 16 ft) above the ground. It mostly takes prey using short upward sallies from a perch to grab it from the underside of leaves.