332 TANAGRIDA. 
Plumbeus, capitis lateribus et gutture (gula alba excepta) nigris, subalaribus albis ; rostro lete rubro-auran- 
tiaco, pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 7:6, alee 3:65, caude 3°5, rostri a rictu 0°8, tarsi 0°9, 
? mari similis, sed fuscescentior, capitis lateribus et gutture fuscis nec nigris distinguenda. (Descr. maris et 
femine ex Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Cosra Rica, Pacuar 7°, Valza (Carmiol); Panama, 
Santa Fé (Arcé}*), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan * 1°), Falls of the Rio Truando ( Wood 6). 
—CotomBlaA? 2; Ecuapor®; Peru 1116; Amazons*15; Guiana 2. 
This Linnzan species has, we believe, remained up to the present time unencumbered 
with a synonym, a peculiarity not shared by many birds. It is, as might be supposed 
from this circumstance, a well-marked bird, with but one near ally in the Brazilian 
Pitylus fuliginosus, with which, however, it cannot well be confounded. 
It is also a bird singularly free from variation, and specimens from Guiana hardly 
differ in being somewhat brighter than our series from Central America. In the latter 
country it is not very common, though it spreads northwards as far as Nicaragua 14. 
Mr. Wood, who observed it only once near the falls of the Truando, says® it has a 
loud musical note, not unlike the Cardinal bird of the United States (Cardinalis 
virginianus). 
Its range in South America, besides including Guiana, extends throughout the 
Amazons valley from Peru, where Natterer found it, to the Rio Javarri and Pebas, 
where it came under the observation of Mr. Bates and Hauxwell. Further westwards 
Whitely obtained it in the valley of the Cosnipata in Peru 11, and Jelski at Montirico 14, 
It also occurs in Western Ecuador® and in Colombia, both near Bogota? and in the 
State of Antioquia !. 
2. Pitylus celeno. (Tab. XXIV.) 
Fringilla celeno, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vig. p. 2* (cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 57). 
Pitylus celeno, Scl. P. Z. 8S. 1856, p. 65; 1864, p. 174°. 
Pitylus atro-purpuratus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 224°. 
Periporphyrus atro-purpuratus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 508°. 
Pitylus atro-olivaceus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1838, p. 224°. 
Caryothraustes atro-olivaceus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 5037. 
Pyranga mexicana, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 41°. 
Niger, torque cervicali postica cum lateribus pectoris et ventre lete sanguineo-rubris; subalaribus rosaceis ; 
rostro plumbeo, pedibus nigris. Long. tota 8-4, alee 4-1, caudex 3-5, rostri a rictu 0°85, tarsi 0°9. (Deser. 
maris ex Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
2 “olivacea, subtus flava, pileo, colli lateribus juguloque nigris” (Bp. ut supra”). 
Hab. Muxico 1468 (Je Strange), Papantla (Deppe 2), valley of Mexico (White 8). 
This fine species of Pitylus must have a very restricted range in Mexico, as its name 
is not included in any of the lists of birds obtained by MM. Sallé, Boucard, Botteri, 
de Oca, or Sumichrast. Mr. White secured a single example *, which is now in our 
collection (and which is now figured), and Mr. le Strange had another in the large 
