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type of this bird, and gave it as Ms opinion that it was only an example of S. mag- 



Thoides. 



The South-American species most nearly allied to the present bird is undoubtedly 

 S. magnus, which enjoys a very wide range in South America, and comes close to our 

 border in the State of Antioquia in Colombia. Salmon found the nest and eggs of 

 S. magnus ; the former he describes as composed of small sticks and fern-stalks, and 

 placed in low underwood ; the eggs are pale greenish blue, with a zone of black spots 

 and hair-lines round the larger end. 



S. maqnus diflFers from S. magnoides in having black rictal lines on each side of the 

 gular spot, which are not carried round it as a necklace as in S. magnoides. It is, 

 too, a smaller bird, and is more rufescent and not so pure a grey beneath. 



3. Saltator grandis. 



Tanagra grandis, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 2 (c/. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 57'). 



Saltator grandis, Scl. P.Z. S. 1856, p. 7V ; 1857, p. 205'; 1859, pp. 364 ^ 377 = ; 1864, p. 174'; 



Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 14'; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 836 ^ Moore, P.Z. S. 1859, p. 58'; 



Cab. J. f . Orn. 1860, p. 416 '" ; 1861, p. 1 " ; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 549 " ; 



Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. pp. 102", 200"; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 19''; v. 



Frantzins, J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 300"; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 200"; Boucard, P. Z. S. 



1883, p. 443 '^ 

 Saltator icterophrys, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 41 "; Bp. Consp. i, p. 490°°. 

 Saltator rufiventris, Vig. in Beechey's Voy. p. 19°' (nee. d'Orb.).- 

 Saltator vigorsii, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 363 '° ; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 143 ''\ 



Supra nigrescenti-cinereus, capitis lateribus obsourioribus, superciliis distinctis albis, guttuie medio albo, nigro 

 utrinque marginato ; subtus pallidior, ventre imo et erisso rufesceatibus ; rostro nigro, mandibula cornea, 

 pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota 8-5, ate 4'2, caudse 4-2, rostri a rictu 0'95, tarsi l-l. (Descr. exempl. ex 

 Tonola, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Av. juv. supra olivaceo indutus, superciliis et gula flavo tinctis, subtus rufescentior. (Descr. maris ex Duenas, 

 Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Eat. Mexico 1 21 22 23^ Tepitongo {QaleoUi "), Villa Maria i9, valley of Mexico {White % 

 hot and temperate regions of Vera Cruz {Sumichrast i^), Tierra Caliente of the 

 Atlantic side {le Strange), Cordova {SalU^), Jalapa^ {Deppe, de Oca^), Playa 

 Vicente {Boucard^), Santa Efigenia^^, TonUa {Sumichrast), Merida in Yucatan 

 {Schott 1^, Gaumer ^^) ; Guatemala {Skinner '', Constancia ^''), Escuintla, Eetalhuleu, 

 Savana Grande, Dueiias '' {0. S.& F.D. 0.); Honduras, San Pedro ( G. M. Whitely % 

 Omoa {Leyland ^) ; Costa Eica {v. Frantzius 10 ^^, Hoffmann ^o), San Jos^ {v. 

 Frantzius'^^), Cartage {Cooper '^^, ArcS, Bogers), Tempate {ArcS). 



There can be little doubt that the birds described above as the young of this species 

 really are so, for, though we have no specimens of S. grandis in transition plumage, we 

 have one of the closely allied S.plumbeiceps in this stage, and Mr. Lawrence has described 

 others. This form of S. grandis was called S. icterophrys by Lafresnaye, owing to 



