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382. Pitylus grossus (Linnseus). Slate-colored Grosbeak. 



Male, Gatun, June 25, 1911. Iris dark brown, bill salmon-pink, 

 tarsi dull black. 



Found in clearing in the forest. 



[383.] Caryothraustes poliogaster scapularis Ridgway. Lesser Bishop Grosbeak. 



384. Saltator magnoides intermedius (Lawrence). Panama Buff-throated Saltator. 



Female, Gatun, April 30, 1911. Iris greenish-brown, bill black, 

 feet fuscous. 



Nest (April 30) in shrubbery in clearing two feet up, a bulky com- 

 pact cup set on a light base of sticks, made of strips of banana leaves 

 and plant bark and lined with brown rootlets and vine tendrils. 

 Eggs two, neaily fresh, blue with a few spots of black in a wreath near 

 the larger end, .72 x 1.03 and .75 x 1.01 ins. 



A common species in thickets adjoining the forest; very quiet. 



385. Saltator atriceps lacertosus Bangs. Panama Black-headed Saltator. 



Female, Agua Clara, March 12, 1911. Iris brown, bill black, feet 

 grayish-horn color. 



A fairly common species. Has a loud and peculiarly harsh call. 



Nest (April 30) three feet up in a shrub grown over with vines, a 

 rather small open cup. Eggs two, bluish-green wreathed with black 

 at the larger end, 1.13 x .76 and 1.12 x .79 ins. Another nest in 

 same sort of situation (March 24, 1912), made of weed stalks and 

 tendrils, contained two fresh eggs, 1.07 x .76 and 1.06 x .75 ins. 



386. Saltator albicollis isthmicus (Sclater). Panama Streaked Saltator. 



A male, Pedro Miguel, May 5, 1912, and female, Taberniha, April 

 18, 1911. Iris gray-brown, l)ill black, feet pale brown. 



f387.] Astragalinus psaltria croceus (Jouy). Central American Goldfinch. 

 *388. Spiza americana (Gmelin). Dickcissel. 



Male and two unsexed specimens, Gatun, June 16, March 16 and 

 February 18, 1912; male, Miraflores, March 5, 1911, and female, 

 Mindi, October 15, 1911. 



March 16, a flock was seen along the river l^ank; the others were 

 alone. 



389. Arremonops conirostris conirostris (Bonaparte). Lafresnaye's Sparrow. 



Male, Gatun, April 18, 1911; female, Ft. Lorenzo, June 11, 1911. 

 Iris light brown, bill black lighter below, feet gray-brown. 



Nest (April 18) in a tussock of grass against a stump about a foot 

 from the ground, an open cup of dead leaves, strips of bark and weed 

 stalks lined with light-brown rootlets. Eggs two, plain white, .71 x 

 .93 and .72 x .93 in. Two other nests (June 2 and June 11) were 



