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collection he brought from Mexico. Deppe seems to have been the only collector who 
secured a series of specimens, as the species is included in the list of his duplicates; and 
owing to this circumstance it received a name and a brief description from Lichtenstein }. 
Deppe’s specimens were from Papantla. We have never seen the female of this species ; 
but Lafresnaye describes that sex under a distinct title in the same paper in which he 
redescribed the male. Mr. Sclater reduced these names to their proper position when 
he wrote his Synopsis of the Tanagers in 1856 2. 
Pitylus celeno has no near allies, but it is grouped by Mr. Sclater with the Guianan 
P. erythromelas, with Bonaparte’s generic name for it (Periporphyrus) as a sectional 
heading. 
8. Pitylus poliogaster. 
Pitylus poliogaster, DuBus, Bull. Ac. Brux. xiv. pt. 2, p. 1051; Esq. Orn. t. 227; Scl. P.Z.S. 
1856, pp. 66°, 302* ; 1859, p. 376°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p.32°; P. Z.S. 1864, p. 3527; 
1870, p. 836°; Ex. Orn. p. 168°; Salv. P. Z.S. 1867, p. 141; Ibis, 1872, p. 317"; 
Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 549; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 102”. 
Pitylus flavocinereus, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1848, p. 47". 
Caryothraustes episcopus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 504 (ex Licht. MS.) ¥. 
Lzte olivaceus, pileo antico et pectore toto flavescentioribus, loris regione oculari et gula nigris ; dorso postico 
et abdomine cinereis, ventre medio albicantiore ; rostro et pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 6°8, ale 3°8, 
caude 3, rostria rictu 0°8, tarsi 0°85. (Descr. maris ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Q mari omnino similis. 
Hab. Mexico“, Cosamaloapam % (Deppe*), Cordova (Sallé+), Choapam, Teotalcingo, 
Playa Vicente (Boucard*®); hot region of Vera Cruz (Swmichrast 12); Brrvisu 
Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Guatnmatal®, Choctum, Yaxcabnal, Kamkal 
(O.S. & FD. G.); Honpuras, San Pedro (G. I. Whitely 8); Nicaragua, Chontales 
(Belt); Costa Rica, Angostura (Carmiol 1%), Tucurriqui (Arcé) ; Panama, Santa 
Fé, Santiago de Veraguas (Arcé 1°), Lion Hill (I Leannan’). 
Pitylus poliogaster comes into Mr. Sclater’s section Caryothraustes, together with 
P. viridis and P. humeralis ; but it differs from these allies in having the anterior half 
of the body yellow and the posterior half grey. 
It was first described by DuBus from Guatemalan specimens, and in Guatemala we 
found it common, but only in the forests of Northern Vera Paz. The elevation at 
which it may most frequently be seen is about 1200 to 2000 feet above the sea; but 
we met with it as high as 4000 feet in the neighbourhood of Coban. It is a forest 
bird, and feeds on fruits. 
In Mexico Sumichrast places it amongst the birds of the hot country; but he, too, 
traced it as high as to between 3000 and 4000 feet of elevation. 
As will be seen above, its further extension southwards reaches to the line of the 
Panama railway, and it seems to be found in suitable localities in all the intervening 
country. 
