450 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Genus SALTATOR Vieill. 



Saltator Vieillot, Analyse noviv. Ornith. p. 32, 1816. Type S. cceru- 

 lescens Vieill. 



Fig. 170. — Saltafor cayanus. 



To this genus belono- some of the laroest of the Finches. The 

 bill is somewhat compressed, the culmen is keeled, the np[)er 

 mandible is slightly hooked at the tip, and the depth and width at 

 the base are about equal. The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, 

 and fifth primaries longest and equal, the second about equal to 

 the sixth, and the first intermediate between the sixth and seventh. 

 The tail is rounded at the tip and nearly nine-tenths the length of 

 the wing. The tarsus exceeds the length of exposed culmen l)y 

 about one-fourth. Coloration : male and female similar. 



Ken ^^ ^^'^ Species. 



A. U]jper surface yellowish green ; lower aspect of 



tail yellow *S'. cayamts, p. 450. 



JB. Upper surface grey ; lower aspect of tail also 



grey ^S*. olivasccns, p. 452. 



634. Saltator cayanus. 



Greater Saltator. 



Le Griverd de Cayenne Daubent. PI. Enl. v. pi. 616. 

 Coracias caynniis Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. ]j. 38, 1783 (Cayenne). 

 Saltaior maynus Cab. in Schomb. IJeis. Guian. iii. p. 676, 1848 ; Salvin, 



Ibis, 1885, p. 213 (Bartica Grove, Boraima, 3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. 



B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 285. 1886 (Boraima, Bartica Grove) ; Quelch, 



Timehri (2) v. p. 81, 1891 (Georgetown). 

 Saltato7' maccimvs (nee Miill.) Brabournc & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 371, 



no. 3803, 1912. 

 Saltator cayanus Mathews & Iredale, Austral. Av. Record, iii. p. 41, 1915. 

 Saltator maximtis maximus (nee Miill.) Beebe, Tropical Wild Life in 



British Guiana, p. 136, 1917 (Bartica). 



"Tompitcher" (Brown:), "Tom-pitcher" {Quelch). 



Adult female. Back, wiugs^ and tail 'olive-green ; bastard-wing 



