Streaked Saltator

The streaked saltator is 19 to 20.5 cm (7.5 to 8.1 in) long and weighs about 30 to 40 g (1.1 to 1.4 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies S. s. striatipectus have a grayish green crown and nape, a thin buffy white supercilium to the eye, whitish arcs above and below the eye, brownish gray lores and ear coverts, and a dusky malar line. Their upperparts and upperwing coverts are greener than the crown and their rump is grayish. Their flight feathers are blackish with wide olive-green edges on the outer webs and their tertials have black inner webs and greenish outer webs. Their tail is gray-brown. Their chin and throat are whitish, their breast off-white with diffuse dark gray streaks, their belly buff-white with gray-black streaks on its side, and their vent and undertail coverts buffy white. The other subspecies of the streaked saltator differ from the nominate and each other thus:

S. s. furax: smaller than nominate with more, darker, and heavier streaked underparts S. s. isthmicus: smaller than nominate with more greenish or yellowish underparts and heavier, more olive-green streaks S. s. scotinus: darkest subspecies with grayer green upperparts, darker face and underpart streaks, and deeper buff undertail coverts than nominate S. s. …

The streaked saltator has a disjunct distribution. The subspecies are found thus:

S. s. furax: from southern San José and central Puntarenas provinces in southwestern Costa Rica into western Panama's western Chiriquí Province S. s. isthmicus: mainland Panama except Chiriquí and Darién provinces S. s. scotinus: Coiba and Coibita islands, in the Pacific off southern Veraguas Province of southwestern Panama S. s. melicus: Taboga Island in the Pacific off central Panama's Panamá Province S. s. speratus: Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panama S. s. striatipectus: Panama's Darién Province; past a gap from Colombia's Antioquia Department south to the west of the Andes into northern Ecuador to Pichincha Province S. s. perstriatus: from northeastern Bolívar, Magdalena, and Norte de Santander departments in northeastern Colombia east into Venezuela, west of the Andes north to southeastern Lara, east of their whole length and across the north in the Coastal Ranges to Sucre and Monagas states; also Trinidad S. s. flavidicollis: lowlands from southwestern Esmeraldas Province in northwestern Ecuador south to Tumbes and northern Piura departments in far northwestern Peru S. s. immaculatus: coastal Peru from Lambayeque Department south to Ica Department S. s. …

The streaked saltator feeds on insects, fruits, seeds, flowers, and buds. It usually forages in pairs and sometimes in small groups, and at all levels of its habitat.