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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.