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Of its habits little has been recorded. Salmon says its food is fruit ®°; Fraser says 
“vegetable matter” and “ fruit with small seeds:” he adds that “the irides are hazel, 
the bill black, and the legs and feet bluish” 5. 
5. Calliste laviniz. 
Calliste lavinie, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1858, p. 1781; 1860, p. 142, t. 1. f. 1°; Salv. Ibis, 1872, 
p- 315°; Scl. Ibis, 1876, p. 409%. 
Lete viridis, capite toto saturate castaneo, cervice postica et dorso antico aureo nitentibus; alis fusco-nigris, 
remigibus extus in medio rufo limbatis, tectricibus quoque minoribus rufescentibus, subtus abdomine medio 
ceruleo, tibiis rufescentibus ; rostro et pedibus corylinis, illius mandibula albicante. Long. tota 5:0, ale 
2-7, caud 1:85, rostri a rictu 0-6, tarsi 0-65. (Deser. exempl. ex Chontales, Nicaragua. Mus. nostr.) 
Q an avis hornot. fere omnino viridis, capite castaneo inornato et abdomine vix ceruleo et alis vix castaneo 
ornatis. (Descr. exempl. ex Veraguas, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Ntcaraaua, Chontales (Belt? 4, Janson®); Costa Rica (van Patten *); Panama, 
Veraguas (Arcé*), Rio Truando (Wood 12), 
For many years the only specimens of this species known were those described by 
Cassin. ‘They were obtained during Lieut. Michler’s expedition to the isthmus of 
Darien at Camp Toucey, in the mountains on the Rio Truando, where they were found 
by Mr. Wood, in March 1858, in the high trees, and were very active and lively, and 
not easily obtained. 
A specimen was then found in a collection brought by Van Patten from Costa Rica ; 
and soon afterwards we obtained a fair series of skins from Belt, who met with them in 
the gold-mining region of Chontales in Nicaragua. It has since occurred in collections 
sent by Arcé from the State of Panama. 
These specimens all exhibit the characters given of the species by Cassin, and which 
are fairly shown in the figure accompanying his paper on Lieut. Michler’s collections ?. 
The species is a very distinct one, and may at once be recognized by the rufous 
edgings to the primaries and the rufous wing-coverts: otherwise it resembles C. gyrola 
of Guiana rather than C. gyroloides. 
In our series we have specimens which are almost entirely green, and show but faint 
traces of the characters of the adult. These we take to be females or young birds; but, 
judging from analogy of what we find in the allied species, most probably the latter. 
6. Calliste cabanisi. 
Calliste (Callispiza) sclateri, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1866, p. 163+ (nec Lafresnaye). 
Calliste cabanisi, Scl. Ibis, 1868, p. 71, t. 37. 
“Supra viridescenti-cerulea, alis caudaque nigris ceruleo marginatis, tectricibus alarum minoribus extus 
omnino ceruleis, interscapulio toto viridi, pilei plumis nigris ceruleo marginatis ; subtus pallide viridescenti- 
cerulea, ventre medio albescente ; pectore nigro squamulato ; rostro et pedibus nigris, mandibula ad basin 
plumbescenti. Long. tota 5:7, ale 3:4, caude 2:3.” (Sclater, ut supra.) 
Hab. GuatEMALA, Costa Cuca ! (Bernoulli ?). 
The single specimen in the Berlin Museum which formed the type of Dr. Cabanis’s 
