(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.