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BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 4 



SALTATOR ALBICOLLIS Vieillot: Streaked Saltator, 

 Saltador Pechirayado 



Figure 43 



Saltator albicollis Vieillot, 1817, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., 14, p. 107. 

 (Martinique.) 



Large; upper surface yellowish green with tail gray; undersurface 

 white, streaked olive, especially on breast. 



Description. — Length 174-188 mm. Adult (sexes alike), lores and 

 ring around eye white, sometimes tinged green; upper surface, includ- 

 ing wings yellowish green, in some races duller, more brownish on 

 crown and gray on upper tail coverts; tail gray; undersurface white, 

 in some races tinged pale yellow, and streaked to varying degrees with 

 olive, especially on breast, sides, and flanks; undertail coverts very light 

 buff; bend of wing light yellow; underwing coverts whitish. 



Figure 43. — Streaked Saltator, Saltador Pechirayado, Saltator albicollis. 



The Streaked Saltator is common in the lowlands and lower foothills 

 of the Pacific slope and on many offshore islands; on the Caribbean 

 side it is only known from the Canal Zone area and Mandinga, San 

 Bias. Six races have been described from Panama — 3 on the mainland 

 and 3 on islands. Five other races range from Colombia to Trinidad 

 and Peru, and additional forms are found in the Lesser Antilles. 



This species inhabits shrubby clearings and woodland edges where 

 it moves in pairs in the undergrowth. It is rather shy, but decoys 

 readily. The stomach of 1 collected by E. A. Goldman at Cana, Darien, 



