Plate LXXXIV. 



PITYLUS HUMERALIS. 



(YELLOW-SHOULDEEED PITYLUS). 



Pytilus {Caryothraustes) Tiumeralis . . . Lawr. Ann. L. N. T. viii. p. 467. 



Supra flavo-viridis, pileo cinereo ; loris et regione aurieulari nigris ; alis caudaque intus nigricantibus, extus dorso 

 concoloribus ; campterio alari flavissimo : subtiis pallide cinereus, gutture nigro variegato, ventre medio albescente, 

 crisso flavo : rostro superiors nigro, iuferiore plumbeo, ad tomias et ad apicein nigricante : pedibus nigris : long, tota 

 6-0, alae 35, caudse 30, tarsi 08. 



Sab. in Nova Granada int. et in rep. ^quatoriali ad ripas fl. Napo. 



Mr. George N. Lawrence, the well-known Omitliologist of New York, lias lately described 

 this remarkable species of Tanager in a paper on new American birds read before the Lyceum 

 of Natural History of that city on the 18th of May, 1867. More recently, a specimen of the 

 same bird from which our figure has been prepared, has come into Sclater's possession from a 

 dealer in Paris. Mr. Lawrence's example is stated to have been derived from a Bogotd collection, 

 while Sclater's is labelled as having been received from the Eio Napo. This is not an unusual 

 range, and the bird may probably inhabit the eastern slopes of the Andes, drained by the 

 affluents of the Orinoco and Upper Amazon. 



The present Tanager, though conspicuously different fi-om its nearest allies in colour, 

 belongs strictly to the section Caryothraustes of the genus Pitijlus according to Sclater's 

 arrano-ement. * The bill is rather lono-er and the culmen more arched than in P. ?;2'n(i2S, the 

 type of the genus, with which it otherwise agrees iu structure. 



The four species of this sub-division of the genus Pitylus now known to us may be 

 arranged as follows : — 



A. — Species ventre flavo. 



1. P. VIEIDIS. 



Loxia canadensis, Linn. S.A"'. i. p. 30-1 : Buff, PL Enl. 152, f. 2. Pifi/lus canadensis, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 



677. Coccoth-austes viridis, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1017. Caryothraustes viridis. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 144. 



Caryothraustes eayennensis, Bp. Consp. p. 504 (partim). Fitylus personatus. Less. E. Z. 1839, p. 42. Canada 



grosleak. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. p. 282. Pitylus viridis, Sol. P.Z.S. 1856, p. 65 : Cat. Am. B. p. 99: Sol. et 



Salv. P.Z.S. 1867, p. 572. 

 Diagn. Minor : rostro debiliore ; gula augustiore nigra. 

 Hal. Cayenne {Buffon) ; Brit. Guiana {Schomburgh) : Para (Wallace). 



* P.Z.S. 1856, p. 65, et Cat. Am. B. p. 99. 



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