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+Pyranga azarae+, _Durnford, Ibis_, 1880, p. 353 (Tuc.u.man); _White, P.

Z. S._ 1883, p. 37 (Cordova); _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 186. +Pyranga coccinea+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 479 (Parana, 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 72 inches, wing 38, tail 31. _Female_ greyish olive; beneath yellow, pa.s.sing 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, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 597 (Misiones); _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 220.

_Description._--Above greyish olive; a large, rec.u.mbent, 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 60 inches, wing 33, tail 29. _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 25, tail 20.

_Hab._ Bolivia and Tuc.u.man.

Herr Schulz obtained specimens of this Bolivian species in Tuc.u.man.

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 65 inches, wing 28, tail 2.

_Hab._ Tuc.u.man.

This is a rather aberrant species of _Buarremon_, as yet only known from Tuc.u.man, 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 57 inches, wing 28, tail 26.

_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 pa.s.sing into cinereous; under wing-coverts pale fulvous; bill plumbeous; feet brown: whole length 85 inches, wing 40, tail 40. _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 CaeRULESCENS, Vieill.

(GREYISH SALTATOR.)

+Saltator caerulescens+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 480 (Parana); _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 26; _Durnford, Ibis_, 1878, p. 59 (Buenos Ayres); _Salvin, Ibis_, 1880, p. 353 (Salta); _White, P.

Z. 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 85 inches, wing 43, tail 41. _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, Tuc.u.man, Parana); _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 26; _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 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; ends of the outer rectrices more or less varied with white; bill clear orange; feet greyish brown: whole length 75 inches, wing 36, tail 35. _Female_ similar, less brightly coloured, and with the guttural collar almost or altogether absent.