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.
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.