(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.
_Description._--Above cinereous, wings and tail rather darker; short
superciliaries white; beneath pale cinereous; throat white, with a
blackish rictal stripe on each side; fore neck slightly tinged with
fulvous; middle of belly whitish; lower belly and crissum strongly
suffused with fulvous; under wing-coverts pale fulvous; bill black;
feet brown: total length 8·5 inches, wing 4·3, tail 4·1. _Female_
similar.
_Hab._ Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina.
Mr. Durnford found this Saltator "pretty common" near Baradero, on low
scrubby ground near water, and afterwards obtained it near Salta. White
records it as "very abundant" near Oran.