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type of this bird, and gave it as his opinion that it was only an example of S. mag- 
noides. 
The South-American species most nearly allied to the present bird is undoubtedly 
S. magnus, which enjoys a very wide range in South America, and comes close to our 
border in the State of Antioquia in Colombia. Salmon found the nest and eggs of 
S. magnus; the former he describes as composed of small sticks and fern-stalks, and 
placed in low underwood; the eggs are pale greenish blue, with a zone of black spots 
and hair-lines round the larger end. 
S. magnus differs from S. magnoides in having black rictal lines on each side of the 
gular spot, which are not carried round it as a necklace as in S. magnotdes. It is, 
too, a smaller bird, and is more rufescent and not so pure a grey beneath. 
3. Saltator grandis. 
Tanagra grandis, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 2 (cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 57°). 
Saltator grandis, Scl. P. Z.8. 1856, p. 72’; 1857, p. 205°; 1859, pp. 864 *, 377°; 1864, p. 174°; 
Sel. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 147; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 886°; Moore, P. Z.S. 1859, p. 58°; 
Cab. J. f. Orn. 1860, p.416"°; 1861, p.1”; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 549”; 
Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. pp. 102”, 200”; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 19”; v. 
Frantzius, J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 8300*°; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 200°"; Boucard, P. Z. S. 
1883, p. 443 ™. 
Saltator icterophrys, laafr. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 41°; Bp. Consp. i. p. 490”. 
Saltator rufiventris, Vig. in Beechey’s Voy. p. 19” (nec. d’Orb.). 
Saltator vigorsii, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 363”; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 143”. 
Supra nigrescenti-cinereus, capitis lateribus obscurioribus, superciliis distinctis albis, gutture medio albo, nigro 
utrinque marginato; subtus pallidior, ventre imo et crisso rufescentibus ; rostro nigro, mandibula cornea, 
pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 8°5, ale 4-2, caude 4:2, rostri a rictu 0°95, tarsi 1-1. (Deser. exempl. ex 
Tonola, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
Av. juv. supra olivaceo indutus, superciliis et gula flavo tinctis, subtus rufescentior. (Descr. maris ex Dueifas, 
Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico | 2! 2? 93, Tepitongo (Galeotti 1"), Villa Maria, valley of Mexico (White 6), 
hot and temperate regions of Vera Cruz (Swmichrast *), Tierra Caliente of the 
Atlantic side (le Strange), Cordova (Sallé*), Jalapa? (Deppe, de Oca‘), Playa 
Vicente (Boucard®), Santa Efigenia , Tonila (Swmichrast), Merida in Yucatan 
(Schott 4, Gaumer '8); Guatemaa (Skinner ’, Constancia ), Escuintla, Retalhuleu, 
Savana Grande, Duefias’ (0. S. & F. D. G.); Honpuras, San Pedro (G. IM. Whitely §), 
Omoa (Leyland®); Costa Rica (v. Frantzius 91%, Hoffmann), San José (v. 
Frantzius 18), Cartago (Cooper !*, Arcé, Rogers), Tempate (Arcé). 
There can be little doubt that the birds described above as the young of this species 
really are so, for, though we have no specimens of S. grandis in transition plumage, we 
have one of the closely allied S. pluwmbeiceps in this stage, and Mr. Lawrence has described 
others. This form of S. grandis was called 8S. icterophrys by Lafresnaye, owing to 
