42 TANAGRIDJE. 



45. SALTATOR OERULESCENS, 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) j White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 597 (Salta) ; ScL Cat. B. xi. p. 290. 



Description. Above cinereous, wings and tail rather darker ; short super- 

 ciliaries 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 8'5 inches, wing 4'3, 

 tail 4'1. 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, Tucuman, Parana) ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. 

 p. 26 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 598 (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 gut- 

 tural 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 

 7*5 inches, wing 3*6, tail 3-5. Female similar, less brightly coloured, and with 

 the guttural collar almost or altogether absent. 



Hab. Paraguay, Uruguay, and Northern Argentina. 



In Corrientes d'Orbigny found this Saltator breeding in the month 

 of November. It frequents the shrubs and bushes in the neighbour- 

 hood of the houses, and makes an open nest of roots, not of very 

 neat construction. The eggs are two or three, greenish blue, slightly 

 spotted at the larger end with blackish and reddish zigzag markings. 

 The egg is figured in d'Orbigny's ' Voyage' (pi. xxviii. fig. 3). 



White tells us that this species is not uncommon in Catamarca, 

 and Barrows met with it at Concepcion in Entrerios. 



