330 TANAGEID^. 



slightly made of small dry twigs and lined with fibrous roots : the eggs, from three to 

 five in number, are of a pale blue colour, with delicate black hieroglyphic marks on the 



large end. 



The young bird described by Mr. Lawrence 2, Grayson thought was a distinct species ; 

 but one of his birds being in transition plumage proves that this cannot be the case. 

 We have also a young bird in a similar state from M. Edbouch. 



Saltator plu-mieiceps is closely allied to *S'. grandis, and entirely takes its place in 

 Western Mexico, beyond the limits of which district it has not yet been detected. Nor 

 have the two birds been found together. 



5. Saltator albicolUs. 



Saltator alUcollis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. xiv. p. 107 ' ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 489 " ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1856, p. 75'; Tacz. P.Z.S. 1874, p. 517 ^• 1879, p. 229°; 1880, p. 198"; Scl. & Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 505, t. 42. f. 9 ' ; Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1880, p. 122 ' ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1883, 



p. 421 \ 

 Saltator maculipectus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 73"; Bp. Consp. i. p. 489"; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, 



p. 76^'; Sel. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 167". 

 Saltator striatipectus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 73" ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 489 '=; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, 



p. 76"; 1866, p. 97"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 331 "; viii. p. 176". 

 Saltator isthmicus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 130'°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 351 "; Salv. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. 141 ''; 1870, p. 189 '^ 



Supra olivaceus, uropygio et cauda oinereis, liujus reotricum apicibus albidis ; subtus sordide albus, pectore 

 olivaceo suffuso, gula et ventre medio albis, corpore reliquo subtus fasco flammulato ; rostro nigro, pedibus 

 eorylinis. Long, tota 7"2, alse 3-5, caudse 3-3, rostri a rietu 0-8, tarsi 0'9. (Descr. maris ex Panama. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari similis. 



Hab. Panama 20, Volcan de Chiriqui, Chitra 23, Santa Fe 22 (ArcS), David {Hicks i^), 

 Lion Hill {M'Leannan ^®2i), near the city of Panama (A. H. Markham^). — South 

 America, from Colombia 7 8 10 u to Ecuador and Peru * 5 e 17^ Venezuela i^, Trinidad ^, 

 and Guiana 2 ? 



We have no specimens from Guiana, whence the type of this species is stated to have 

 com'e 1. Mr. Sclater, who examined this type in the Paris Museum before writing his 

 Synopsis of Tanagers in 1856 ^, says that it seemed to him to be a skin of a young 

 bird. He further states his suspicion that it came from Trinidad and not from Cayenne, 

 though the bird may well occur in- both countries. This bird must bear Vieillot's title 

 Saltator albicollis. With the acquisition of a gradually increasing series of specimens 

 of a Saltator of this form, including examples from many points of the northern 

 portion of South America, we have gradually come to the conclusion that but one 

 species ranges from Trinidad on the east to the Isthmus of Panama, and thence south- 

 wards to the Gulf of Guayaquil. It thus follows that the names ^S'. maculvpectm, 

 S. striatipectus, and S. isthmicus are all but synonyms of S. alUcollis, as they were 



