666 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Saltator magnoides (not of Lafresnaye) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 69, 

 part (Chiriqui); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 7, part (do.); Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xi, 1886, 284, part (Volcan de Chiriqui; Bugaba and Santa F^, Ver- 

 agua). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, .')51 (Lion Hill, 

 Ist'iimuHof Panama) . — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 140 (SantaF^, Ver- 

 agua; David, Chiriqui; crit. ); 1870, 189 (Chiriqui; Bugaba, Chitra, and Mina 

 - de Chorcha, Veragua). — Salvin and Gorman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 

 1883, 327, part (Chiriqui, Veragua, and Panama references and localities) . 



Saltator niagnus (not Tanagra magna Gmelin) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 

 1861, 297 (Lion Hill, Panama E. R.). 



Saltator intermedius Lawrence, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., Apr., 1864, 106 (Lion 

 Hill, Panama R. R. ; coll. G. N. Lawrence ?); Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1865, 

 176 (David, Chiriqui; crit.) .—Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 

 32 (Lion Hill; crit.). 



SALTATOR GRANDIS ( Lichtenstein) . 

 VIGORS'S SALTATOR. 



Adults {sexes alih'). — Above plain deep browiiLsh gray, more or less 

 tinged with olive on rump and upper tail-coverts, the tail hair brown 

 rather than gra^^; sides of head and neck deep browni.sh gray, like 

 pileum, relieved by a rather broad superciliary stripe of white, extend- 

 ing some distance behind the eye; a broad median stripe on chin and 

 throat of white or pale buff 3^, bordered on each side by a gra3^ish black 

 or dusk}' lateral stripe; chest, upper Ijreast, and anterior portion of 

 sides dull grayish or grayish olive, sometimes more or less strongly 

 suffused with ])uffy ; flanks similar but more strongly tinged with buff v; 

 lower abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts clear, deep buff or 

 cinnamon-buff; under wing-coverts paler buff; maxilla blackish, mandi- 

 ble horn-color (in dried skins); legs and feet duskv or horn-color (in 

 dried skins). 



Immature. — Similar to adults, but the gray more or less strongl}' 

 washed wdth olive-green and the white superciliary stripe and throat- 

 stripe tinged with j^ellow. 



Young. — Similar to the immature plumage (but texture of feathers 

 very different); superciliarv stripe sulphur yellow; median throat- 

 stripe narrower and less sharpl}^ defined, and lateral throat-stripes dull 

 olive-grayish instead of dusky. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 193.04-223.52 (204.98); wing, 90.93- 

 103.89 (98.30); tail, 88.39-108.46(97.28); exposed culmen, 18.29-20.07 

 (19.30); depth of bill at base, 11.94-13.21 (12.45); tarsus, 25.15-28.45 

 (26.92); middle toe, 17.78-20.57 (19.05).^ 



Adtdt female.— IjQwgth (skins), 187.96-237.49 (211.84); wing, 92.71- 

 105.41 (99.06); tail, 86.11-111.25 (98.55); exposed culmen, 18.29-21.84 



^ Eight specimens. 



