ARREMON.—SALTATOR. 325 
In Guatemala it is common in the forest-country north of Coban, where we obtained 
specimens in 1862, and whence others have been forwarded to us by native collectors. 
A Costa-Rican specimen of this species was described by Cassin as A. rufodorsalis ; 
but this seems to be nothing but a stained example of the well-known bird. Salvin 
was of this opinion when he examined the type in ‘Asi4 17, No similar specimens have 
since been obtained. 
As already stated, A. awrantiirostris is the sole representative of the genus in Central 
America, beyond the limits of which it is not found. It belongs to the same group as 
A, silens of Guiana and Brazil, and has its nearest ally in A. spectabilis of Colombia 
and Ecuador, from which it differs in having a darker back and a broader black pec- 
toral band. 
SALTATOR. 
Saltator, Vieillot, Anal. p. 32 (1816) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 69. 
Saltator contains about eighteen species, all of which belong to the Neotropical 
Region, and are spread from Mexico to Paraguay and the Argentine Republic. Five 
species occur within our limits, four of them being peculiar to the country, only one, 
S. albicollis, spreading beyond into the northern portions of South America. 
The members of the genus Saltator are all stoutly-built birds, with strong Fringilline 
bills, S. atviceps being the largest species of Tanager known. ‘The sexes are coloured 
alike; the prevailing colour of the plumage is olive-grey or brown above, and generally 
grey beneath, one section being streaked with brown. The bill is strong, somewhat 
elongated, the culmen being much arched; the commissure is nearly simple, but there 
is a subapical maxillary notch ; the wings are short and rounded, and the tail long and 
also much rounded ; the tarsi are short, these birds being strictly aboreal in their habits. 
1: Saltator atriceps. 
Tanagra (Saltator) atriceps, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 208, t. 69". 
Saltator atriceps, Bp. Consp. i. p. 488°; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 142°; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, pp. 694, 
302°; 1859, p. 864°, 3777; 1864, p. 174°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 14°; P. ZS. 1864, 
p. 351"; 1870, p. 836"; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 58”; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. lll”; 
Lawr. Ann. Lye. N.Y. vii. p, 297"; ix. pp. 102", 200"; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 
p. 19"; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 549"; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 199”; 
P. Z. 8. 1883, p. 421°; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 448 a, 
Tanagra gnatho, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vég. p. 2” (cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 56). 
Arremon giganteus, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 117”. 
Pyrrhula raptor, Cabot, Journ. Bost. Soc. N. H. v. p. 90, t. 12”. 
Supra olivaceus, capite toto cum mento et torque pectorali nigris, superciliis indistincte albis, gutture medialiter 
albo ; corpore reliquo subtus cinereo, crisso ferrugineo; rostro nigro, mandibula interdum flavicante, 
pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 10-4, ale 4:6, caude 5-0, rostri a rictu 1:0, tarsi 1-1. (Deser. maris ex 
Volcan de Agua, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
© mari similis. 
