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In Guatemala it is common in the forest-country north of Coban, where we obtained 

 specimens in 1862, and whence others have been forwarded to U8 by native collectors. 



A Costa-Rican specimen of this species was described by Cassin as A. rufodorsalis ; 

 but this seems to be nothing but a stained example of the well-known bird. Salvin 

 was of this opinion when he examined the type in 1874 '^'^. No similar specimens have 

 since been obtained. 



As already stated, A. aurantiirostris is the sole representative of the genus in Central 

 America, beyond the limits of which it is not found. It belongs to the same group as 

 A. silens of Guiana and Brazil, and has its nearest ally in A. spectabilis of Colombia 

 and Ecuador, from which it diflFers in having a darker back and a broader black pec- 

 toral band. 



SALTATOK. 



Saltator, Vieillot, Anal. p. 32 (1816) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 69. 



Saltator contains about eighteen species, all of which belong to the Neotropical 

 Eegion, and are spread from Mexico to Paraguay and the Argentine Republic. Five 

 species occur within our limits, four of them being peculiar to the country, only one, 

 S. albicollis, spreading beyond into the northern portions of South America. 



The members of the genus Saltator are all stoutly-built birds, with strong Fringilline 

 bills, S. atriceps being the largest species of Tanager known. The sexes are coloured 

 alike ; the pjevailing colour of the plumage is olive-grey or brown above, and generally 

 grey beneath, one section being streaked with brown. The bill is strong, somewhat 

 elongated, the culmen being much arched ; the commissure is nearly simple, but there 

 is a subapical maxillary notch ; the wings are short and rounded, and the tail long and 

 also much rounded ; the tarsi are short, these birds being strictly aboreal in their habits. 



1. Saltator atriceps. 



Tanagra {Saltator) atriceps, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 208, t. 69 '. 



Saltator atriceps, Bp. Consp. i. p. 488^ Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p.'142'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, pp. 69^ 

 302 ^ 1859, p. 364 ^ 377'; 1864, p. 174'; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 14»; P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 351"; 1870, p. 836"; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 58"; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. Ill"; 

 Law. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 397"; ix. pp. 103'% 300"; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, 

 p. 19"; Sumicbrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 549"; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 199"; 

 P. Z. S. 1883, p. 431 '" ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 443 '\ 



Tanagra gnatho, Licbt. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 3 '' (c/. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 56) . 



Arremon giganteus, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 117 ^\ 



Pyrrhula raptor, Cabot, Journ. Bost. Soc. N. H. v. p. 90, t. 13^'. 



Supra oHvaceus, capite toto cum mento et torque peotorali nigris, superciliis indistincte albis, gutture medialiter 

 albo ; corpore reliquo subtus oinereo, crisso ferrugineo ; rostro nigro, mandibula interdum flayicante, 

 pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota 10-4, alse 4-6, caudse 5-0, rostri a rictu 1-0, tarsi 1-1. (Descr. maris ex 

 Volcau de Agua, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



$ mari similis. 



