450 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Genus SALTATOE Vieill. 



Saltator Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith. p. 32, 1816. Type S. cwru- 

 lescens Vieill. 



Fig. 170. — Saltator cayanus. 



To Ibis genus belong some o£ tbe largest of tbe Fincbes. Tbe 

 bill is somewhat compressed, tbe eulmen is keeled, the upper 

 mandible is slightly booked at tbe tip, and tbe depth and width at 

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

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

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

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

 the wing. The tarsus exceeds tbe length of exposed eulmen by 

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



Key to the Species. 



A. Upper surface yellowish green ; lower aspect of 



tail yellow S. cayanus, p. 450. 



B. Upper surface grey ; lower aspect of tail also 



grey S. oUvascens, Tp. 452. 



634. Saltator cayanus. 



Greater Saltator. 



ie Oriverd de Cayenne Daubent. PI. Enl. v. pi. 616. 



Goracias cayanus Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 38, 1783 (Cayenne). ' 



Saltator magnus Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 676, 1848 ; Satvin, 



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



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



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

 Saltator maximus (nee Miill.) Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 371, 



no. 3803, 1912. 

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

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



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



" Tompitcher " {Brown), " Tom-pitcher " [Quelch). 



Adult female. Back, wings, and tail olive-green ; bastard-wing 



