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sides of head (loral, suborbital, malar, auricular, and supraauricular 

 -regions) plain dull slate-gray; sides of chin and throat and broad band 

 across chest black, inclosing a throat-patch of ochraceous-buff ; under 

 tail-coverts 3'ellowish ochraceous or butfy, the median portion of the 

 feathers sometimes more or less tinged with olive; rest of under parts 

 plain grayish (dull light slate-gray on breast, becoming paler and some- 

 times tinged with butfy on abdomen, the flanks more or less tinged with 

 olive); maxilla black, the mandible horn-color (in dried skins, bluish- 

 gray in life?) with terminal portion black; legs and feet horn-color (in 

 dried skins). 



Adult maZ^.— Length (skins), 195.58-210.82 (204.98); wing, 93.47- 

 104.90 (98.30); tail, 93.98-102.11 (97.28); exposed culmen, 16.51-18.54 

 (17.53); depth of bill at base, 25.40-25.91 (25.65); middle toe, 18.54- 

 19.56 (19.05).^ 



ArMi female.— 'L^\\gi\\ (skins), 193.04-215.90 (207.52); wing, 91.44- 

 101.09 (96.52); tail, 93.22-99.06 (95.50); exposed culmen, 18.80-19.81 

 (l!t.30): depth of bill at base, 10.67-12.19 (11.43); tarsus, 24.6tl-26.92 

 (25.91); middle toe, 18.03-19.56 (18.80).^ 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Cordova; Vera 

 Cruz; Mirador; Motzorongo), Mexico? ("Valle}' of Mexico"), and 

 Oaxaca (Playa Vicente; Santo Domingo). 



Saltator magnoides Lafeesnaye, Rev. Zool., 1844, 41 (Mexico; coll. Lafresnaye^) . — 

 ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 69, part (Cordova, Vera Cruz), 302 

 (Cordova) ; 1859, 364 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 377 (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca) ; 1864, 

 174 (valley of Mexico); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 7, part (Cordova); Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 95, part (Vera Cruz); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 284, 

 part (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 549 

 (hot region of Vera Cruz, up to 3,000 ft. ). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i, 1883, 327, part (Mexican references and localities). 



S.\_altator^ magnoides Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 489 (Mexico). 



[Saltator'] ■magnoides Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 74, no. 7072 (Mexico). — Scl.\ter 

 and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 26, part. 



S-laltatorl gigantodcs Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, May, 1851, 142 (Mexico; Berlin 

 Mus.). 



SALTATOR MAGNOIDES. MEDIANUS Ridgway. 

 CENTRAL AMERICAN BUFF-THROATED SALTATOR. 



A(hilfx {sexeH alike). — Similar to S. m. riiagnoldei< but pileum gray, 

 more or less tinged or overlaid ])y olive-green and gray, and sides of 

 head paler. 



Adult male.—\^^xi^i\\ (skins), 194.31-208.28 (200.15); wing, 99.06- 

 103.89 (101.60); tail, 89.41-94.49(91.95); exposed culmen, 18.80-22.10 

 (20.07); depth of bill at base, 10.41-11.94 (11.18); tarsus, 24.38-26.92 

 (25.91); middle toe, 18.03-19.81 (18.80).' 



' Three specimens. 



''Tj'pes now in the Boston Society of Natural History i-ollection. 



^Six specimens. 



