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wards, and the gonys slightly upwards; the maxilla has a single subterminal notch. 
The wings are rather long, the second, third, and fourth primaries being the longest in 
the wing. The feathers of the plumage generally have the barbs bare at the ends, as 
in Chlorophonia ; and to the structure and colour of this part of the feather the peculiar 
metallic lustre of the plumage is due. The feet are feeble and the tarsi short, in 
accordance with the strictly arboreal habits of the birds; but of these but little has been 
recorded. Salmon obtained the eggs of three species in the State of Antioquia, viz. 
C. vitriolina, C. atricapilla, and C. nigriviridis, all of which resemble one another in 
being of a pale greenish ground, blotched with lilac or red-brown marks, especially in 
a zone round the larger end. The nest of C. vitriolina is open, and made outwardly 
of moss, and lined with fine roots, fibres, and horsehair. 
The food of Calliste is usually fruit and occasionally insects. 
1. Calliste florida. (Tab. XVII. fig. 1.) 
Calliste florida, Scl. & Salv. P. Z.S. 1869, p. 416, t. 287; Sel. Ibis, 1876, p. 4092. 
Lete viridis, pileo et uropygio aurulento lavatis ; interscapulio nigro variegato ; alis nigris, secundariis et tectri- 
cibus omnibus viridi marginatis ; cauda nigra, rectricibus intermediis extus cerulescenti-viridi late margi- 
natis; loris et regione parotica nigris; ventre medio et crisso flavicantibus, subalaribus albis; rostro et 
pedibus nigris. Long. tota 5:0, ale 2:6, caude 1-7, rostri a rictu 5-5, tarsi 0°38. (Descr. exempl. ex 
Veraguas, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
mari omnino similis, sed nucha et dorso postico minus aurulento suffusis. (Descr. exempl. typ. ex Costa 
Rica. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica (Carmiol 1); Panama, Veraguas (Arcé 2). 
This Calliste, of which very few specimens have as yet come under our notice, was 
first sent to us by Carmiol from Costa Rica in 1869, a single female specimen being in 
a collection forwarded to us by him at that time. The exact spot in Costa Rica where 
this example was obtained was not recorded. Since then other specimens have reached 
us from Arcé, who most probably found them in the neighbourhood of Santiago de 
Veraguas, or nearer to the townof Panama. Amongst these latter is the male specimen 
now figured. 
The only species of Calliste which at all resembles C. florida is C. schranki, a species 
of wide range on the eastern slopes of the Andes, between Ecuador and Bolivia, and 
throughout the basin of the Upper Amazons. From this bird C. florida differs in 
having the forehead coloured like the top of the head instead of being black, and in 
the underparts being green instead of yellow. 
2. Calliste guttata. 
Callispiza guttata, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 26°. 
Calliste guttata, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 249°; Mon. Call. p. 21, t. 10°; Cat. Am. B. p. 64°; Lawr 
Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 98°; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 298°; Salyv. P. Z.S. 1870, p. 1877; 
Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 325°. 
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