Argentine Ornithology, Volume 1 (of 2): A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic.Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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Argentine Ornithology, Volume 1 (of 2): A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic.
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
Birds -- Argentina
+Tanagra bonariensis+, _Berl. Zeitschr. ges. Orn._ 1885, p. 119;
_Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 164. +Tanagra striata+, _Burm. La-Plata
Reise_, ii. p. 480 (Buenos Ayres, Mendoza, Cordova); _Scl. et
Salv. Nomencl._ p. 21; _Durnford, Ibis_, 1877, p. 170 (Buenos
Ayres); _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 596 (Catamarca); _Barrows,
Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl._ viii. p. 91 (Concepcion).
_Description._--Lores, region round the eyes, and back black; rump
orange; head all round and edging of wings and tail blue; abdomen
yellow, passing into orange on the breast; bill horn-colour; feet
brown: whole length 7 inches, wing 3·6, tail 2·8. _Female_ greyish
brown; beneath paler, tinged with yellowish olive on the rump and
throat.
_Hab._ South Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentine Republic, and Bolivia.
The plumage of the male of this fine Tanager is rich blue above and
yellow beneath; the upper plumage of the female is a uniform dull
olive-green, the breast and belly buff-colour.
It is a migratory species, which appears in Buenos Ayres in small flocks
in summer. Both sexes have a long, sharp, reedy call-note; the male also
possesses a song composed of notes with a peculiar bleating sound.
39. PYRANGA AZARÆ, d'Orb.
(AZARA'S TANAGER.)
+Pyranga azaræ+, _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 (Paraná, Mendoza).
+Pyranga saira+, _Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl._ viii. p. 91
(Concepcion).
_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 RUFICEPS (d'Orb. et Lafr.).
(RED-CAPPED TANAGER.)
+Thlypopsis ruficeps+, _Scl. Cat. B._ xi. p. 231.
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