Volume I Part 9 (2/2)

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.

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