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.

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