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.

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