268 TANAGRIDZA. 
Calliste chrysophrys, Scl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 24, t. 69. f. 2, & p. 54’. 
Calliste guttulata, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxil. p. 76". 
Spotted Emerald Tanager, Lath. Gen. Hist. Birds, vi. p. 19. 
Supra aurescenti-viridis, capitis totius et dorsi antice plumis medialiter nigris, viridi marginatis, fronte et 
regione oculari aureis, loris nigris ; alis et cauda fusco-nigris, hac viridi, illis ceerulescenti-viridi marginatis, 
subtus alba cerulescente tincta et guttis rotundis precipue in pectore perfusa, maculis his in gula minori- 
bus ; hypochondriis et crisso flavo-virescentibus ; rostro nigricante, pedibus obscure corylinis. Long. tota 
4°5, ale 2°5, caude 1:8, rostri a rictu 0:5, tarsi 0°75. (Descr. maris ex Tucurriqui, Costa Rica. Mus. 
nostr. ) 
Q@ mari similis, sed coloribus minus claris. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Tucurriqui (Arcé), Angostura ®, Dota® (Carmiol), Turrialba (Cooper) ; 
Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé’).—Sovurn America, from Colombia?’ to 
Ecuador ? 1°, and to Venezuela 3, Trinidad 311, and Guiana |. 
Mr. Henry Whitely has recently sent us skins of this bird from Roraima in British 
Guiana, the same locality whence Schomburgk obtained the types described by Dr. 
Cabanis!. Our examples from Roraima agree fairly well with others from other 
points of the range of the species; but we notice that the underparts are much less 
spotted, the spots being almost confined to the chest, the throat and abdomen being 
plain. 
Venezuelan and Trinidad examples agree closely with our series from Costa Rica 
and the State of Panama; and should they be hereafter considered distinct from 
the Roraima bird, they all should bear the name C. chrysophrys, Scl. 
Though this Tanager was known to Latham, and described in his ‘General History 
of Birds’ under the title of the Spotted Emerald Tanager 11, it was confused with an 
allied species, Calliste punctata (L.), until the year 1850, when Dr. Cabanis gave it its 
present name; and almost at the same time, or shortly after, as Mr. Sclater tells us, it 
received two other appellations at the hands of Mr. Sclater and Prince Bonaparte. All 
this is explained in the monograph of the genus Calliste written and published by the 
former ornithologist °. 
The range of Calliste guttata is somewhat remarkable, spreading as it does along 
the whole of the north coast of South America, then turning northwards to Costa Rica, 
and southwards to Ecuador. | 
Regarding its record from the last-named country, we observe that the single example 
obtained by Bourcier from Mindos, in the north-western portion of the Republic, which 
formed the type of Bonaparte’s C. guttulata, is the only one we have heard of from so 
far south. Neither Fraser nor Buckley met with it, nor have we seen specimens in the 
many collections we have examined from Ecuador. It is also worthy of note that the 
species is also absent from the list of Salmon’s collections from Antioquia. But it is 
not uncommon in trade collections sent from Bogota; and Mr. C. W. Wyatt found it 
in the mountains above Ocafia®. It is absent from the line of the Panama railway; but 
appears on the slopes of the Volcan de Chiriqui, and in several parts of the eastern 
side of Costa Rica. 
