664 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



sides of head (loral, suborbital, malar, auricular, and supraauricular 

 regions) plain dull slate-gray; sides of chin and throat and broad band 

 across chest black, inclosing a throat-patch of ochraceous-buff; under 

 tail-coverts yellowish ochraceous or buffy, the median portion of the 

 feathers sometimes more or less tinged with olive; rest of under parts 

 plain grayish (dull light slate-gray on breast, becoming paler and some- 

 times tinged with buffy on abdomen, the flanks more or less tinged with 

 olive); maxilla black, the mandible horn-color (in dried skins, bluish- 

 gray in life?) with terminal portion black; legs and feet horn-color (in 

 dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 195.58-210.82 (204.98); wing, 93.47- 

 104.90(98.30); tail, 93.98-102.11 (97.28); exposed culmen, 16.51-18.54 

 (17.53); depth of bill at base, 25.40-25.91 (25.65); middle toe, 18.54- 

 19.56 (19.05).^ 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 193.04r-215,90 (207.52); wing, 91.44- 

 101.09 (96.52); tail, 93.22-99.06 (95.50); exposed culmen, 18.80-19.81 

 (19.30); depth of bill at base, 10.67-12.19 (11.43); tarsus, 24.64-26.92 

 (26.91); middle toe, "18. 03-19. 56 (18.80).' 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Cordova; Vera 

 Cruz; Mirador; Motzorongo), Mexico? ("Valley of Mexico"), and 

 Oaxaca (Play a Vicente; Santo Domingo). 



Saltatormagnoides'LAVs.'ESii AYE, Rev. Zool. , 1844, 41 (Mexico; coll. Lafresnaye^) . — 

 SoLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 69, part (Cordova, Vera Cruz), 302 

 (Cordova) ; 1859, 364 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 377 (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca) ; 1864, 

 174 (valley of Mexico); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 7, part (Cordova); Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 95, part (Vera Cruz); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 284, 

 part (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869,549 

 (hot region of Vera Cruz, up to 3,000 ft. ). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i, 1883, 327, part (Mexican references and localities). 



S-laltaiorl magnoides Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 489 (Mexico). 



\_Saltalor] magnoides Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 74, no. 7072 (Mexico). — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 26, part. 



S.\_aUator'] gigantodes Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i. May, 1851, 142 (Mexico; Berlin 

 Mus.). 



SALTATOR MAGNOIDES MEDIANUS Ridgway. 

 CENTKAL AMERICAN BUFF-THROATED SALTATOR. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Similar to S. in. magnoides but pileum gray, 

 more or less tinged or overlaid by olive-green and gray, and sides of 

 head paler. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 194.31-208.28 (200.15); wing, 99.06- 

 103.89 (101.60); tail, 89.41-94.49(91.95); exposed culmen, 18.80-22.10 

 (20.07); depth of bill at base, 10.41-11.94 (11.18); tarsus, 24.38-26.92 

 (25.91); middle toe, 18.03-19.81 (18.80).' 



' Three specimens. 



''■ Types now in the Boston Society of Natural History collection. 



' Six specimens. 



