PANAMA BUFF-THROATED SALTATOR 



10. Saltator intermedius (Lawrence) 

 Panama Buff-throated Saltator 



Saltator magnoides intermedius RIDGWAY, Birds of N. 

 and M. Amer., I, p. 665, 1901 ; STONE, Proc. Phila. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 276. 



Sexes alike. Length, 195 mm. (7.70 in.); tail, 

 92 mm. (3.60 in.). Top of head and cheeks gray, 

 a narrow stripe of white above eye, remaining 

 upper parts yellowish olive green ; sides of chin 

 and throat and band across chest (sometimes 

 absent) black, enclosing a buff throat patch, this 

 fading to white on chin ; under tail coverts yellow 

 buff, rest of under parts grayish. Bill black. 



Widely distributed and common. I saw it 

 several times near the Gamboa road in the brush. 



ii. Saltator striatipectus isthmicus (Sclater) 

 Panama Streaked Saltator 



Saltator albicollis isthmicus RIDGWAY, Birds of N. and 

 M. Amer., I, p. 669, 1905; STONE, Proc. Phila. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 276. 



Sexes alike. Length, 177 mm. (6.95 in.); 

 tail, 82 mm. (3.20 in.). Olive green above, 

 tinged with grayish on top and sides of head and 

 neck and passing to light grayish brown on rump ; 

 an indistinct line of dull whitish from bill to 

 whitish eyebrow; the sides of the throat olive, 

 the remainder of the under parts dull whitish 

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