Specimens of this Tanager were obtained by White on the Sierras of Totoral, near Catamarca, in July 1880. The iris is marked as “blue.”
[44.] SALTATOR SIMILIS, d’Orb. et Lafr.
(ALLIED SALTATOR.)
Saltator similis, d’Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 290, t. xxviii. fig. 2 (Corrientes); Scl. Cat. B. xi. p. 287. Saltator superciliaris, White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 597 (Corrientes)?
Description.—Above cinereous; interscapulium and greater wing-coverts and secondaries suffused with olive-green; superciliaries white; below pale fulvous; throat white, bordered on each side by a black line; flanks passing into cinereous; under wing-coverts pale fulvous; bill plumbeous; feet brown: whole length 8·5 inches, wing 4·0, tail 4·0. Female similar.
Hab. S.E. Brazil and Eastern Argentina.
This Saltator was first described from specimens obtained at Rincon de Luna in Corrientes by d’Orbigny, but no recent collectors appear to have met with it in the Argentine Republic.
[45.] SALTATOR CÆRULESCENS, Vieill.
(GREYISH SALTATOR.)
Saltator cærulescens, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 480 (Paraná); Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 26; Durnford, Ibis, 1878, p. 59 (Buenos Ayres); Salvin, Ibis, 1880, p. 353 (Salta); White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 597 (Salta); Scl. Cat. B. xi. p. 290.