208 WARBLER. 



Such is the description of M. Azara, of a bird found at Buenos 

 Ayres, which frequents places covered with water, and was seen 

 running up the reeds : further particulars not known. 



A. — Length three inches and three quarters. Bill black ; upper 

 part of the head, including the eyes, black ; down the middle of the 

 crown a broad crimson streak ; over the eye, on each side, a buff 

 streak, beginning just over the bill, and passing to the hindhead, 

 ending with the black; neck behind, back, and rump, olive-green ; 

 all the under parts fine yellow, rather paler at the vent; wings black, 

 on the middle of the coverts white, passing down the inner second 

 quills, which are white, forming a broad oblique white streak ; 

 the four middle tail feathers black, the others white, shape nearly 

 even at the end ; the wings reach to the base ; legs black. 



A specimen of this last in the collection of Lord Stanley, and 

 from which our figure is taken. — See pi. cvii.* 



276— GREY WARBLER. 



Tanagra grisea, Ind. Orn. i. 428. Gm. Lin. i. 892. 



Le Gris-olive, Buf. iv. 277. PI. enl. 714. 1. 



Grey Tanager, Gen. Syn. iii. 236. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 239. 



SIZE of the White Throat ; length five inches. Bill black ; 

 forehead and between the eyes grey ; plumage above greyish olive, 

 beneath grey ; quills and tail darker ; legs dusky brown. 



Inhabits Guiana ; also found in Louisiana. 



277.— YELLOW-FRONTED WARBLER. 



Vireo flavifrons, Vieill. Am. i. p. 85. pi. 54. 



LENGTH four inches eight lines. Bill and legs black ; general 

 colour of the plumage yellow green on the head and upper parts of 



