168 Mr. O. V. Aplin on the 



16. Tanagra bonariensis. Blue-and-yellow Tanager. 

 Resident probably (I saw it as late as 8tli May) and fairly 



common. In spring they frequented the quinta and patio, 

 stolidly and steadily feeding on the young leaves of the 

 cifia-ciiia acacia^ and when at rest sitting among the flowering 

 acacia blanca trees or in the wattles. I have counted as 

 many as eight old males besides females in the trees. Later 

 on they retired to the monte to breed, and I fancy several 

 pairs may have bred close together, for at one place along 

 the Monzon I always used to meet with them. On the 24th 

 January I shot a young male then just moulting into adult 

 dress. One obtained at the Rio Negro on the 14th December 

 had been feeding on moye berries. 



* Saltator aurantiirostris. Yellow-billed Saltator. 

 One in the Museum at Montevideo from Uruguay. 



* GuiRACA glaucoc.erulea. Glaucous Finch. 



A local specimen in the Museum at Montevideo. 



17. Spermophila c^rulescens. Screaming Finch. 



I only met with two specimens of this bird, both upon the 

 same day (15th NoA^ember), one in the quinta, the other on 

 the fence dividing the barley chacra from a new plantation. 

 They were both males. 



18. Paroaria cucullata. Cardinal Finch. 



Common and apparently resident, as they were still at Sta. 

 Elena when I left at the end of May. They are usually seen 

 in pairs, or later on in family parties, but on the 14th April 

 I saw a little flock of a dozen feeding on the ground near 

 the monte ; it is possible that these were merely the young 

 of two broods with their parents, for, like many birds here, 

 they have more than one brood. The " Cardinal " was com- 

 monest round estancia houses where there were trees, and 

 in thin monte, but hardly any puesto boasting a few trees 

 or little clump of tala and curupi among the rocks was 

 without a pair of these beautiful and lively Finches. The 

 sweet flageolet-like song of the male is one of the 

 pleasantest early morning sounds. A nest in a bush on the 



