Abstract. Consider a family of infinite tri-diagonal matrices of the form L + zB, where the matrix L is diagonal with entries L kk = k 2 , and the matrix B is off-diagonal, with nonzero entries B k,k+1 = B k+1,k = k α , 0 ≤ α < 2. The spectrum of L + zB is discrete. For small |z| the n-th eigenvalue En(z), En(0) = n 2 , is a well-defined analytic function. Let Rn be the convergence radius of its Taylor's series about z = 0. It is proved that Rn ≤ C(α)n 2−α if 0 ≤ α < 11/6.