330 TANAGRIDA. 
slightly made of small dry twigs and lined with fibrous roots; the eggs, from three to 
five in number, are of a pale blue colour, with delicate black hieroglyphic marks on the 
large end. 
The young bird described by Mr. Lawrence”, Grayson thought was a distinct species ; 
but one of his birds being in transition plumage proves that this cannot be the case. 
We have also a young bird in a similar state from M. Rébouch. 
Saltator plumbeiceps is closely allied to S. grandis, and entirely takes its place in 
Western Mexico, beyond the limits of which district it has not yet been detected. Nor 
have the two birds been found together. 
5. Saltator albicollis. 
Saltator albicollis, Vieill. N. Dict. d’Hist. N. xiv. p. 1071; Bp. Consp. i. p. 4897; Scl. P.Z.S. 
1856, p. 75°; Tacz. P.Z.S. 1874, p. 5174; 1879, p. 229°; 1880, p. 198°; Scl. & Salv. 
P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 505, t. 42. f.97; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1880, p. 122°; Salv. P.Z.S. 1883, 
p. 421°. 
Saltator maculipectus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 73"; Bp. Consp. i. p. 489"; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, 
p. 76"; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 167”. 
Saltator striatipectus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 73“; Bp. Consp. i. p. 489"; Scl. P.Z. 8. 1856, 
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p. 76"; 1866, p. 97°"; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 381”; vi. p. 176”. 
Saltator isthmicus, Scl. P. Z.S. 1861, p. 180”; Scl. & Salv. P. Z.S. 1864, p. 351”; Salv. P. Z. 8. 
1867, p. 141"; 1870, p. 189”. 
Supra olivaceus, uropygio et cauda cinereis, hujus rectricum apicibus albidis; subtus sordide albus, pectore 
_ olivaceo suffuso, gula et ventre medio albis, corpore reliquo subtus fusco flammulato ; rostro nigro, pedibus 
corylinis. Long. tota 7-2, ale 3-5, caude 3-3, rostri a rictu 0:8, tarsi 0-9. (Descr. maris ex Panama. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Q mari similis. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Chitra 23, Santa Fé 22 (Arcé), David (Hicks 1°), 
Lion Hill (M‘Leannan 181), near the city of Panama (A. H. Markham ®).—Sovrs 
America, from Colombia? § 1° 14 to Ecuador and Peru 45 6 17, Venezuela 18, Trinidad 3. 
and Guiana 2? 
We have no specimens from Guiana, whence the type of this species is stated to have 
come*. Mr. Sclater, who examined this type in the Paris Museum before writing his 
Synopsis of Tanagers in 1856 %, says that it seemed to him to be a skin of a young 
bird. He further states his suspicion that it came from Trinidad and not from Cayenne, 
though the bird may well occur in both countries. This bird must bear Vieillot’s title 
Saltator albicollis, With the acquisition of a gradually increasing series of specimens 
of a Saltator of this form, including examples from many points of the northern 
portion of South America, we have gradually come to the conclusion that but one 
species ranges from Trinidad on the east to the Isthmus of Panama, and thence south- 
wards to the Gulf of Guayaquil. It thus follows that the names S. maculipectus, 
S. striatipectus, and 8S. isthmicus are all but synonyms of S. albicollis, as they were 
