Sept. a BANGS — PANAMA BIRDS 31 
1900 
Saltator lacertosus' sp. nov. 
Six specimens, both sexes. 
Type, from Loma del Leon, Panama, @ adult, no. 7524, coll. of E. A. and 
O. Bangs, collected March 10, 1900, by W. W. Brown, Jr. 
Specific characters.— Nearest to S. atriceps Less. of Mexico and Central 
America, differing from that species in being smaller; tail shorter; bill much 
larger and stouter; white superciliary stripe much more pronounced; no 
black band across lower throat; under tail-coverts much darker— more 
rusty; sides and flanks browner; sides of face gray (blackish in S. atriceps) ; 
sexes similar in color. 
Coler.— Pileum black; back, wings and tail, bright, yellowish, olive green; 
inner webs of primaries and secondaries dusky; a white superciliary stripe 
reaching some distance behind eye; cheeks slate gray; chin black; throat 
pure white, bordered at lower sides by black, and sometimes a few black spots 
on the feathers of breast just behind white throat patch, but ever a black 
band separating throat patch and breast (as in S. atriceps); breast and belly 
gray (no. 6 of Ridgway); sides and flanks dull olive brown; under tail-coverts 
dull ferruginous; bend of wing yellow. 
MEASUREMENTS (in millimeters). 
Exposed 
No. Sex and age Wing Tail Tarsus culmen 
7524 Type Q ad. rm Ie 122: 29. 24.6 
7525 Topotype Q ad. ITO. 106.5 29.6 “Ay 
7526 - & ad. 107.2 110. 29. 215.2 
7527 &e g ad: 116. — 30. 21s 
7528 Ke Gad 118.5 21. 29.6 25.2 
7529 ue & ad IG 12%. 30. 24.6 
Remarks.—In Washington I examined a splendid series of 
Saltators. The National Museum contains specimens of S. az? 
ceps from a great many different places in southern Mexico and 
Central America, and also a few skins of the new form from 
Panama, I could not find the slightest indication that the two 
forms intergrade and must therefore regard the Panama bird as 
a distinct species. It is, in truth, such a very different bird in so 
many ways that I cannot understand how the two have for so 
long been confused and run together under one specific name. 
1 Lacertosus— powerful, 
2 Primaries growing, after moult, and not of full length. 
