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39. PYRANGA AZAR.E, d'Orb. 

 (AZARA'S TANAGER.) 



Pyranga azarae, Durnford, Ibis, 1880, p. 353 (Tucuman) ; 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 (Conception). 



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, P. 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 RUPICEPS (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. 



