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collection he brought from Mexico. Deppe seems to have been the only collector who 

 secured a series of specimens, as the species is included in the list of his duplicates ; and 

 owing to this circumstance it received a name and a brief description from Lichtenstein K 

 Deppe's specimens were from Papantla. We have never seen the female of this species ; 

 but Lafresnaye describes that sex under a distinct title in the same paper in which he 

 redescribed the male, Mr. Sclater reduced these names to their proper position when 

 he wrote his Synopsis of the Tanagers in 1 856 ^. 



Pitylus celceno has no near allies, but it is grouped by Mr. Sclater with the Guianan 

 P. erythroTnelas, with Bonaparte's generic name for it {Periporphyrus) as a sectional 

 heading. 



3. Pitylus poliogaster. 



Pitylus poliogaster, DuBus, Bull. Ac. Bnix. xiv. pt. 3, p. 105 '; Esq. Om. t. 22 ''j Scl. P.Z. S. 



1856, pp. 66 ', 303 ' ; 1859, p. 376 ' ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 32 "; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 352 ' ; 



1870, p. 836 ^ Ex. Om. p. 168'; Salv. P.Z. S. 1867, p. 141'°; Ibis, 1873, p. 317"; 



Sumickrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 549 '"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 102". 

 Pitylus flavocinereus, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1848, p. 47 ". 

 Oaryothraustes episcopus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 504 (ex Licht. MS.) '°. 



Lsete olivaceus, pileo antico et pectore toto flavesoentioribus, loris regione oculari et gula nigris ; dorso postico 

 et abdomine oinereis, ventre medio albieantiore ; rostro et pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota 6-8, alse 3'8, 

 candsB 3, rostri a rictu 0"8, tarsi 0'85. (Descr. maris ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



5 mari omnino simUis. 



Eab. Mexico ^^, Cosamaloapam ^^ {Bejppe ^), Cordova {SalU ^), Choapam, Teotalcingo, 

 Playa Vicente (Boucard^) ; hot region of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast ^^) ; British 

 HoNDUEAS, Belize [Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala ^ ®, Choctum, Yaxcabnal, Kamkal 

 {0.S.& F. B.G.); HoNDUEAS, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely ^) ; Nicaeagtja, Chontales 

 {Belt^^) ; Costa Eica, Angostura [Carmiol ^^), Tucurriqui {Arce) ; Panama, Santa 

 Fd, Santiago de Veraguas {Arce ^^), Lion Hill {M^Leannan 7). 



Pitylus poliogaster comes into Mr. Sclater's section Oaryothraustes, together with 

 P. viridis and P. humeralis ; but it differs from these allies in having the anterior half 

 of the body yellow and the posterior half grey. 



It was first described by DuBus from Guatemalan specimens, and in Guatemala we 

 found it common, but only in the forests of Northern Vera Paz. The elevation at 

 which it may most frequently be seen is about 1200 to 2000 feet above the sea ; but 

 we met with it as high as 4000 feet in the neighbourhood of Cohan. It is a forest 

 bird, and feeds on fruits. 



In Mexico Sumichrast places it amongst the birds of the hot country ; but he, too, 

 traced it as high as to between 3000 and 4000 feet of elevation. 



As will be seen above, its further extension southwards reaches to the line of the 

 Panama railway, and it seems to be found in suitable localities in all the intervening 

 country. 



