53. SALTATOE. 283 



Back uniform grey or plumbeous ; super- 

 ciliary stripe wliitish; middle of throat 

 white, with a black line on each side. 

 c'. Bill dark plumbeous. 

 C-. Sides of head grey. 

 a^. Breast pale cinereous. 



a*. Crissum rufous 7. (frandis, p. 288. 



b*. Crissum ocliraceous. 



«*. Lower belly less ochraceous : 

 breast slightly tinged 



with fulvous 8. plumbeiceps, p. 289. 



^ breast pure cinereous . . 9. olivascens, p. 289. 

 ¥. Lower belly more ochraceous 10. ccerulesceiis^^.'HQO. 



b^. Breast dark cinereous 11. superciliaris, p. 291. 



cP. Sides of head black 12. orenocensis, p. 291. 



d'. Bill orange ; a black guttural collar : 



( guttural collar narrow 13. cmrantiirostris, p. 292. 



] guttural coUar broad 14. laticlavius, p. 292. 



d. Back fuscous ; no superciliaries ; front, 



sides of head, and throat black 15. atricoUis, p. 293. 



B. Abdomen not striated, uniform dark chest- 



nut 16. ni/ivenfris, p. 29.3. 



C. Abdomen not striated, yellowish white . . 17. JiavidicolKs, p. 294. 



D. Abdomen sti'iated : 



j rump olive 18. albicoUis, p. 294. 



I rump grey 19. (/uadalupensis, p. 295. 



1. Saltator atriceps. 



Tanagra (Saltator) atriceps, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 208, t. 69 (1830). 



Saltator atriceps, Bp. Consp. i. p. 488 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 142 ; 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, pp. 69, 302, 1858, p. 358, 1859, pp. 58, 364, 

 377, et 1864, p. 174 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. p. 7 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 95 ; 

 Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 14 (Guatemala) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 351 

 (Panama), 1870, p. 836 (Honduras) : iid. Nomencl. p. 26 ; Moore, 

 P. Z. S. 1859, p. 58 (Honduras) ; Tai/lor, Ibis, 1860, p. Ill (Hon- 

 duras) ; Lamrence, Ann. L. N. Y. vii. p. 297 (Panama), ix. p. 102 

 (Costa Rica) et p. 200 ( Yucatan) : id. Bull. U. S. N. M. no. 4, p. 19 

 (S.W. Mexico) ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 549 (Vera 

 Cruz) ; Salv. Cat. StricM. Coll. p. 199 ; id. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 421 

 (Panama) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 443 (Costa Rica) ; Salv. et 

 Godm. Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i. p. 325. 



Arremon giganteus, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 117. 



Pyrrhula raptor, Cabot, Boston Journ. v. p. 90, pi. xii. 



Tanagra gnatho, Licht. Preis-Verz. p. 2 ; cf. Cab. J.f. 0. 1863, p. 56. 



Above yellowish olive-green ; cap black ; sides of head cinereous 

 or mixed with black or blackish ; a slight white superciliary stripe : 

 below cinereous ; a large white (sometimes dark chestnut) guttural 

 patch, bordered above by the black chin and sides of the throat, and 

 below by a more or less developed black guttural collar ; crissum 

 chestnut or ochreous red ; bill black, lower mandible sometimes 

 whitish ; feet brown : whole length 10 inches, wing 5, tail 5. 

 Female similar. 



Hah. Southern Mexico and Central America down to Panama. 



