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Bonaparte, iu his * Conspectus,' statės, on the authority of Barou de 

 Lafresnaye, that it is merely the common S. magnus supplied with 

 the tail of a Ptilogonys. But Dr. Hartlaub, who has lately inspected 

 the bird, is quite convinced of its being a good and distinct species. 

 (See Journ. f, Om. 1854, p. 255.) 



5. Saltator similis. 



Tanagra superciliaris, Max. Beitr. iii. 518? 



Saltator similis, Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. Av. i. p. 36 ; d'Orb. Voy. 

 p. 290, pi. 28, fig. 2 ; Gray, Gen. p. 363 ; Tsch. F. P. p. 209? ; 

 Bp. Consp. p. 489 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 143. 



Saltator gutturalis, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 



Supra cinereus ; interscapulio et alarum marginibus olivaceo-vi- 

 ridibus : superciliis longis albis : subtus albido-cinerascens, me- 

 dialiter fulvo tinctus : gutture toto pure albo, utringue nigro 

 marginato : crisso rufescente : rostri inferioris basi alba. 



Long. teta 9*0, alse 4*0, caudse 4'0. 



Hab. South Brazil, Corrientes (d'Orb.) ; Peru, wood-region and 

 coast (Tsch.). 



Mus. Paris., Brit. 



This bird is common among the collections of Brazilian skins so 

 frequently imported of late years. Comparing it with 5. magnus, we 

 find the olive colour, which there pervades the entire upper surface, 

 confined in the present species to the middle of the back and edgings 

 of the wings, the ręst of the upper plumage being cinereous. The 

 throat too is pure vvhite, and wants the rufous blotch on the fore-neck. 



6. Saltator olivascens. 



Saltator olivascens, Cab. in Schomb. Reise, iii. 676 ; Bp, Consp. 

 p. 490; Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 142. 



Saltator plumbeus, Bp. Notės Orn. p. 23. 



Fusco-cinereus unicolor; superciliis ante oculos curtis et gutture 

 albis, hoc utringue nigro marginato : subtus albo-cinereus,pectore 

 cinerascentiore ; ventre medio albescentiore, inferiore cum crisso 

 pallide rufescenti-ockraceis : rostra nigro. 



Long. totą 8-0, alae 3"75, caudse 3'3. 



Hab. British Guiana (Schomb.) ; Cayenne (Mus. Paris.^ ; Vene- 

 zuela, Cumana (Mus. Eytoni) ; S. Martha (Bp.) ; Trinidad (Lord 

 Harris) . 



Mus. Bremensi ; Eytoni ; Berolin. ; Heineano. 



There is no trace of green colour on the plumage of this Saltator, 

 the upper surface being uniform blackish-cinereous, as in Saltator 

 grandis, to which it is very closely allied. But the latter bird may 

 be distuiguished by the blacker sides of the head and ear-coverts, and 

 the greater breadth of the stripes on each side of the throat, which 

 leave only a narrow longitudinal white band in the middle of it. 

 And in the Central American bird the ochraceous colour of the 

 crissum extends all over the abdomcn more or less, vvhile in the 

 present species the middle of the belly is nearly white. 



