Plate LXXXIV. 



PITYLUS HUMERALIS. 



(YELLOW-SIOULDEEED PITYLUS). 



Pitylus {Caryothraustes) humeralis 



Lawr. Ann. L. N". T. viii. p. 467. 



Supra flavo- viridis, pileo cinereo ; loris et regione auriculari nigris ; alis caudaque intus nigricantibus, extiis dorso 

 concoloribus ; campterio alari flavissimo : subtus pallide cinereus, gutture nigro variegato, ventre medio albeseente, 

 crisso flavo : rostro superiore nigro, inferiore plumbeo, ad tomias et ad apicem nigricante : pedibus nigris : long, tota, 

 6-0, ala3 35, caudse 30, tarsi 0-8. 



Hab. in Nova Granada int. et in rep. ^Eqnatoriali ad ripas fl. Napo. 



Mr. George N. Lawrence, the well-known Ornithologist of New York, has lately described 

 this remarkable species of Tanager in a paper on new American birds read before the Lyceum 

 of Natural History of that city on the 18th of May, 1867. More recently a specimen of the 

 same bird, from which our figure has been prepared, has come into Sclater's possession from a 

 dealer in Paris. Mr. Lawrence's example is stated to have been derived from a Bogota collection, 

 while Sclater's is labelled as having been received from the Eio Napo. This is not an unusual 

 range, and the bird may probably inhabit the eastern slopes of the Andes, drained by the 

 affluents of the Orinoco and Upper Amazon. 



The present Tanager, though conspicuously different from its nearest allies in colour, 

 belongs strictly to the section Caryothraustes of the genus Pitylus according to Sclater's 

 arrangement.* The bill is rather longer and the culmen more arched than in P. viridis, the 

 type of the genus, with which it otherwise agrees in structure. 



The four species of this sub-division of the genus Pitylus now known to us may be 

 arranged as follows : — 



A. — Species ventre flavo. 



1. P. VIEIDIS. 



Loxia canadensis, Linn. S.N. i. p. 304 : Buff, PI. Enl. 152, f. 2. Pitylus canadensis, Cab. in Schoinb. G-uian. iii. p. 



677. Coccothraustes viridis, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1017. Caryothraustes viridis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 144. 



Caryothraustes cayennensis, Bp. Consp. p. 504 (partim). Pitylus personatus, Less. R. Z. 1839, p. 42. Canada 



grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Hist. v. p. 282. Pitylus viridis, Scl. P.Z.S. 1856, p. 65 : Cat. Am. B. p. 99 : Scl. et 



Salv. P.Z.S. 1867, p. 572. 

 Diagn. Minor : rostro debiliore ; gula augustiore nigra. 

 Sab. Cayenne {Buffon) : Brit. Guiana (SchomburgJc) : Para {Wallace). 





* P.Z.S. 1856, p. 65, et Cat. Am. B. p. 99. 

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