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3. Calliste icterocephala. 
Calliste icterocephala, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxii. p. 76’; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 251%; 1860, p. 87°; 
Scl. Mon. Call. p. 37, t.17*; Cat. Am. B. p. 65°; Salv. P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 188°; 1870, 
p. 186"; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 98°; v. Frantz. J. f. O. 1869, p. 298°; Scl. & Salv. 
P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 498 °°. 
Callispiza (Chrysothraupis) frantzii, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 87”. 
Flavus, interscapulio et tectricibus alarum superioribus nigro variegatis, loris et stria infra oculos nigris; alis 
caudaque nigris aurescenti-viridi extus limbatis ; gutture et torque cervicali postica pallide viridescenti- 
argenteis ; rostro nigro, pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 5°5, ale 2°9, caudee 2:0, rostri a rictu 5:5, tarsi 0°7. 
- (Descr. maris ex Dota, Costa Rica. Smiths. Inst. No. 54238. Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari similis, sed supra viridescenti-aurea et coloribus omnibus obscurioribus. (Descr. femine ex Sante Fé, 
Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica 1, Candelaria mountains °, Dota ®° (v. Frantzius), valleys of Turrialba 
(v. Frantzius®, Cooper ®, Arcé), Barranca (v. Frantzius °, Carmiol®), San José (Car- 
miol8); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui’, Vivala, Boquete de Chitra’, Cordillera del 
Chucu’, Cordillera de Tolé®, Calovevora’, Santa Fé®, Calobre (Arcé).—Sovutu 
America, Colombia !, Ecuador 12349, 
When Mr. Sclater wrote his ‘ Monograph of the Genus Calliste’ in 1857, only two 
specimens of this species were known to him, both of which were brought by Bourcier 
from Punta Playa, a valley of the Andes near Quito in Ecuador‘. A few years after- 
wards, Fraser found it at Nanegal in the same country °, and it would appear to be not 
uncommon in Western Ecuador, as specimens are generally to be found in collections 
forwarded thence. Tracing its range northwards, we have an example from the 
vicinity of Pasto, and again from Remedios in Colombia, where Salmon found it 1°. 
We are not aware, however, that it ever occurs in the trade collections sent from 
Bogota. From the isthmus of Panama itself it is absent, at least from all the lowlying 
land yet investigated ; but throughout the country situated between Calobre and the 
volcano of Chiriqui it is perhaps commoner than at any other point of its range. 
In Costa Rica, too, beyond which point it has not yet been traced, it is by no means a 
rare bird. Dr. Cabanis was the first to receive specimens from the latter country ; 
these he described as Callispiza frantzii. It has since been proved that he founded 
his description upon female birds; and the receipt of a good series of both sexes shows 
that no real difference exists between Costa-Rican birds and typical ones from Ecuador. 
If anything, adult males of the northern bird are a shade more golden in their upper 
plumage; but the difference is quite trivial. 
Little has been recorded of Calliste icterocephala. Fraser remarks :—“ Irides hazel ; 
bill black; legs and feet blue; food green minute-seeded fruit.” 
_ Calliste icterocephala has no very near allies in the genus; but it belongs to the 
same group or section containing C. aurulenta, of which there are five species, all found 
in the Andes between Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. Of these, it is the 
only one which extends its range into our region. 
