BIRDS FROM BRAZIL AND SOUTHERN VENEZUELA—FRIEDMANN 561 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. o@, lim. 9, Isla Orocopiche, Venezuela, December 1, 1929. 
lim. 6, Soledad, Venezuela, December 7, 1929. 
The adult male from Isla Orocopiche is the type of this form. The 
few adults of this subspecies I have seen have been very variable in 
the darkness or lightness of the orange head. The type is the yellow- 
est, especially on the forehead, and the most tinged with olive on the 
orange of the occiput; a male from Capuchin is the brightest orange 
(and also the lightest); a female from El Fraile is the duskiest on the 
posterior crown and occiput. All agree, however, in the grayness of 
the back and in their small size. 
The two immature birds are olive-green above, somewhat lighter 
and more yellowish on the head than on the back, with yellow and 
superciliary lines meeting in front at the base of the bill. They have 
the sides of the head yellowish, the cheeks and auriculars flushed with 
olive, and have the chin, throat, breast, most of abdomen, sides, and 
flanks yellowish. The young male is generally brighter yellow than 
the female and has the yellow extending over the lower abdomen and 
under tail coverts, which are whitish in the young female. 
As stated in the original description, this race is similar to typical 
sordida but has the upperparts purer gray, less olivaceous, the general 
tone deep grayish olive (as opposed to dark citrine in the nominate 
race) and is slighly smaller (wings in the males 67-68 mm. in orino- 
censis; 70-71 mm. in sordida). 
Family FRINGILLIDAE: Finches 
SALTATOR MAXIMUS MAXIMUS (P.L.S. Miiller): Lesser Buff-throated Saltator 
Tanagra maxima P. L. 8. Mitiuuter, Natursystem, Suppl., 1776, p. 159 (based on 
“Tangara, des grands bois de Cayenne’ Daubenton, Planches enluminées 
» « ., pl. 205: Cayenne). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
limm. 9, Brazil, Santa Isabel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, October 13, 1930. 
2 ad. o', Brazil, Sio Gabriel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, January 5-15, 1931. 
lad. o’, Venezuela, Playa de Candela, Brazo Casiquiare, February 8, 1931. 
2 ad. o, 2 ad. 9, Venezuela, Puerto Ayacucho, Rio Orinoco, May 14-19, 1931, 
and January 4, 1930. 
These specimens reveal considerable individual variation in the 
amount of green on the crown, in the intensity of the ochraceous tone 
on the under tail coverts, and in the length of the bill. The last- 
named character varies from 20-24 mm. in females, and from 18.5-22 
mm. in males (culmen measured from the base). 
SALTATOR COERULESCENS BREWSTERI Bangs and Penard: Brewster’s Saltator 
Saltator olivascens brewsteri BANGs and PrENaARD, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 62, 
1918, p. 91 (Caparo; Trinidad), 
