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+Tanagra bonariensis+, _Berl. Zeitschr. ges. Orn._ 1885, p. 119;

      _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 164. +Tanagra striata+, _Burm. La-Plata

      Reise_, ii. p. 480 (Buenos Ayres, Mendoza, Cordova); _Scl. et

      Salv. Nomencl._ p. 21; _Durnford, Ibis_, 1877, p. 170 (Buenos

      Ayres); _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 596 (Catamarca); _Barrows,

      Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl._ viii. p. 91 (Concepcion).

 

    _Description._--Lores, region round the eyes, and back black; rump

    orange; head all round and edging of wings and tail blue; abdomen

    yellow, passing into orange on the breast; bill horn-colour; feet

    brown: whole length 7 inches, wing 3·6, tail 2·8. _Female_ greyish

    brown; beneath paler, tinged with yellowish olive on the rump and

    throat.

 

_Hab._ South Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentine Republic, and Bolivia.

 

The plumage of the male of this fine Tanager is rich blue above and

yellow beneath; the upper plumage of the female is a uniform dull

olive-green, the breast and belly buff-colour.

 

It is a migratory species, which appears in Buenos Ayres in small flocks

in summer. Both sexes have a long, sharp, reedy call-note; the male also

possesses a song composed of notes with a peculiar bleating sound.

39. PYRANGA AZARÆ, d'Orb. (AZARA'S TANAGER.)

 

+Pyranga azaræ+, _Durnford, Ibis_, 1880, p. 353 (Tucuman); _White, P.

S._ 1883, p. 37 (Cordova); _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 186. +Pyranga

      coccinea+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 479 (Paraná, Mendoza).

      +Pyranga saira+, _Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl._ viii. p. 91

      (Concepcion).

 

    _Description._--Above dull rosy red; interscapulium and wing-edgings

    with cinereous tinge; below much brighter, nearly uniform rosy red,

    duller on the sides; bill plumbeous; feet brown: total length 7·2

    inches, wing 3·8, tail 3·1. _Female_ greyish olive; beneath yellow,

    passing into cinereous on the flanks and belly.

 

_Hab._ Argentine Republic, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia.

 

This scarlet Tanager appears occasionally in the northern and eastern

provinces of Argentina.

40. TRICHOTHRAUPIS QUADRICOLOR (Vieill.). (FOUR-COLOURED TANAGER.)

 

+Trichothraupis quadricolor+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 23; _White,

Z. S._ 1882, p. 597 (Misiones); _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 220.

 

    _Description._--Above greyish olive; a large, recumbent, vertical

    crest bright yellow; sides of the head, wings, and tail black; below

    pale fulvous; under wing-coverts and a cross-bar near the base of

    the wing-feathers white; bill whitish, plumbeous at base; feet

    pale brown: total length 6·0 inches, wing 3·3, tail 2·9. _Female_

    similar, but without the vertical crest.

 

_Hab._ Southern Brazil, Paraguay, and N.E. Argentina.

 

This species was met with by White in the dense forests of Misiones.

41. THLYPOPSIS RUFICEPS (d'Orb. et Lafr.). (RED-CAPPED TANAGER.)

 

+Thlypopsis ruficeps+, _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 231.

 

    _Description._--Above cinereous; cap bright chestnut-red; beneath

    yellow, flanks tinged with cinereous; under wing-coverts white; bill

    plumbeous, feet pale brown: whole length 5 inches, wing 2·5, tail

    2·0.

 

_Hab._ Bolivia and Tucuman.

 

Herr Schulz obtained specimens of this Bolivian species in Tucuman.

42. BUARREMON CITRINELLUS, Cab. (YELLOW-STRIPED TANAGER.)

 

+Buarremon citrinellus+, _Cab. Journ. f. Orn._ 1883, p. 109; _Scl.

      Cat. B._ xi. p. 270.

 

    _Description._--Above olive-green, darker on the head; wings and

    tail blackish brown, edged with olive; a broad superciliary stripe

    commencing on the front on each side, and another commencing at the

    gape, bright yellow, leaving in the middle a broad patch of dark

    olive; beneath yellow, breast and flanks olivaceous; throat yellow,

    bordered on each side by a dark olive mystacal stripe; bill black;

    feet brown: whole length 6·5 inches, wing 2·8, tail 2.

 

_Hab._ Tucuman.

 

This is a rather aberrant species of _Buarremon_, as yet only known from

Tucuman, where it was discovered by Schulz.

43. ARREMON ORBIGNII, Sclater. (D'ORBIGNY'S TANAGER.)

 

+Arremon orbignii+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 25; _White, P. Z. S._

      1882, p. 597 (Catamarca); _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 274.

 

    _Description._--Above olive-green; wings and tail blackish, edged

    with olive; head black, superciliaries white, vertical stripe and

    nape cinereous; beneath white, with a narrow but distinct pectoral

    band; sides cinereous; bend of wing yellow; bill yellow, with the

    upper half of the upper mandible black; feet brown: total length 5·7

    inches, wing 2·8, tail 2·6.

 

_Hab._ Bolivia and Northern Argentina.

 

Specimens of this Tanager were obtained by White on the Sierras of

Totoral, near Catamarca, in July 1880. The iris is marked as "blue."

44. SALTATOR SIMILIS, d'Orb. et Lafr. (ALLIED SALTATOR.)

 

+Saltator similis+, _d'Orb. Voy., Ois._ p. 290, t. xxviii.

      fig. 2 (Corrientes); _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 287. +Saltator

      superciliaris+, _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 597 (Corrientes)?

 

    _Description._--Above cinereous; interscapulium and greater

    wing-coverts and secondaries suffused with olive-green;

    superciliaries white; below pale fulvous; throat white, bordered

    on each side by a black line; flanks passing into cinereous;

    under wing-coverts pale fulvous; bill plumbeous; feet brown:

    whole length 8·5 inches, wing 4·0, tail 4·0. _Female_ similar.

 

_Hab._ S.E. Brazil and Eastern Argentina.

 

This Saltator was first described from specimens obtained at Rincon de

Luna in Corrientes by d'Orbigny, but no recent collectors appear to have

met with it in the Argentine Republic.

45. SALTATOR CÆRULESCENS, Vieill. (GREYISH SALTATOR.)

 

+Saltator cærulescens+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 480 (Paraná);

      _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 26; _Durnford, Ibis_, 1878, p. 59

      (Buenos Ayres); _Salvin, Ibis_, 1880, p. 353 (Salta); _White, P.

S._ 1882, p. 597 (Salta); _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 290.

 

    _Description._--Above cinereous, wings and tail rather darker; short

    superciliaries white; beneath pale cinereous; throat white, with a

    blackish rictal stripe on each side; fore neck slightly tinged with

    fulvous; middle of belly whitish; lower belly and crissum strongly

    suffused with fulvous; under wing-coverts pale fulvous; bill black;

    feet brown: total length 8·5 inches, wing 4·3, tail 4·1. _Female_

    similar.

 

_Hab._ Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina.

 

Mr. Durnford found this Saltator "pretty common" near Baradero, on low

scrubby ground near water, and afterwards obtained it near Salta. White

records it as "very abundant" near Oran.

46. SALTATOR AURANTIIROSTRIS, Vieill. (YELLOW-BILLED SALTATOR.)

 

+Saltator aurantiirostris+, _d'Orb. Voy., Ois._ p. 288 (Corrientes);

      _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 481 (Mendoza, Cordova, Tucuman,

      Paraná); _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 26; _White, P. Z. S._ 1882,

508 (Catamarca); _Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl._ viii. p. 91

      (Concepcion); _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 292.

 

    _Description._--Above cinereous, with a slight olivaceous suffusion;

    head rather darker; sides of head and throat black; superciliary

    stripe, commencing above the eye, white; beneath pale cinereous

    mixed with fulvous, a well-marked guttural collar joining the sides

    of the throat black;