59. PITTLUS. 307 



7. Pitylus poliogaster. 



Pitvlus poliogaster, Du Bus, Bull. Ac. Bnt.r. xiv. pt. ii. p. lOo; id. 



iiev. Zool. 1848, p. 245 ; id. Esq. Oni. t. 22 ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 



pp. 66, ;-!02, et 1859, p. 376; id. S,/n. Av. Tan. p. 4; id. Cat. A. B. 



p. 98; Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. :i2 (Guatemala) ; iid. P. Z. S. 



1864, p. 352 (Panama), 1870, p. 836 (Plonduras) ; iid. Ex. Orn. 



p. 168 ; iid. Nomencl. p. 26 ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 141 ( Veragua) ; 



id. Ibis, 1872, p. 317 (Nicaragua) ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. S. N. H. 



i. p. 549 (Vera Cruz) ; Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. ix. p. 102 (Costa 



Rica) ; Sain, et Godm. Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i. p. 333. 

 Pitylus flavocinereus, Cassin, Pt: Acad. Sc. Philad. 1848, i. p. 47. 

 Caryothraustes episcopus, Bj). Consp. i. p. 504. 



Above yellowish olive, head yellow ; lower back cinereous ; sides 

 of head and throat black ; breast yellow ; belly cinereous ; under 

 wing-coverts sulphur-yellow ; bill dark plumbeous ; feet dark grey : 

 whole length (vS inches, wing 3-8, tail 3. Female similar. 



Bab. Southern Mexico and Central America down to Panama. 



a. Ad. sk. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



b. (5 ad. sk. Choctuiu, Vera Paz (Sahn'n). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Kamkhal, Vera Paz (Salvin). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. 2ad.sk. Yaxcamnal, Guatemala (.S'ai?w«). Sahin-Godman CoU. 



e. Ad. sk. Belize, Brit. Honduras (Blanca- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



neaiLv). 



f. Ad. sk. Chontales, Nicaragua (Belt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 //, h. Ad. sk. Tucurriqui, Costa Rica (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 i. Ad. sk. Santiago de Veragua (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 .;'. Ad. sk. Santa Fe, Veragua (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 f^,L d 2 ''"i- sk. Panama (McLeannan). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



8. Pitylus humeralis. 



Pitylus (Caryothraustes) humeralis, Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. viii. p. 467. 

 Pitylus humeralis, Scl. et Salv, Ex. Orn. p. 167, pi. Ixxxiv. ; iid. 

 Nomencl. p. 26. 



Above yellowish olive-green ; wings and tail blackish, edged with 

 olive-green ; smaller wing-coverts and bend of wing yellow ; cap 

 cinereous ; sides of head black ; rictal stripe on each side white 

 varied with black ; throat on each side black, varied more or less 

 with white in the middle ; abdomen cinereous, flanks olive, crissum 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts and asillaries pale yellow ; bill jjlum- 

 beous, paler beneath ; feet dark grey : whole length 6-2 inches, 

 wing 3"4, tail 3 8. 



Hah. Colombia and Ecuador. 



In this very distinct species the bill is rather more compressed 

 and slightly more incurved than in P. poliogaster. But that bird is, 

 apparently, its nearest ally. 



a. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Rio Napo. Sclater Coll. 



d. e. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Biicklei/). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). Sclater Coll. 



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