272 TANAGRIDA, 
and Mr. Sclater’s descriptions, so far as we know, still remains unique. We have made 
several attempts to obtain more specimens, and wrote to the late Dr. Bernoulli about 
it, but without result. Dr. Bernoulli, in reply to our questions, said that it was he, 
as Salvin supposed 2, who obtained the original specimen, but that he had never 
been able to secure another. 
The Costa Cuca, lying as it does on the Mexican frontier, near to Soconusco.on the 
Pacific coast, is far from the haunts of the bird-hunters of Vera Paz; and it is only 
through some resident in that remote district interested in birds that we may hope for 
further news of this interesting species. 
We have long entertained some hopes of its being found in the State of Chiapas, and 
that we should hear of it through Professor Sumichrast; but, owing to the death of 
that industrious naturalist, this hope, too, is gone. 
As Mr. Sclater remarks, this fine large Calliste, nearly equalling in size C. brascliensis, 
comes perhaps nearer to C. atricapilla than to any other species ?. 
The type specimen was submitted to Mr. Sclater in 1868, when we had an opportu- 
nity of examining it. A figure of it was then taken, which accompanies Mr. Sclater’s 
paper. 
The name C. sclateri, originally proposed for this Calliste by Dr. Cabanis, being 
inadmissible, there being already a Calliste of that name proposed by Lafresnaye, 
Mr. Sclater returned Dr. Cabanis’s compliment by renaming the species Cadliste cabanisi, 
which will remain its future title. 
7. Calliste dowi. 
Calliste dowi, Salv. P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 168°; 1870, p. 187°; Scl. Ibis, 1863, p. 451, t.12°; Lawr. 
. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 98°; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 298°. 
Supra nigra, nuche et cervicis laterum plumis argentescenti-viridi terminatis, pilei margine postico ochrascente 
marginato ; uropygio argentescenti-viridi ; tectricibus, supracaudalibus, alis et cauda ceruleo marginatis ; 
subtus gula tota nigra, pectore antico nigro plumis singulis viridescente cinnamomeo marginatis, abdomine 
toto cinnamomeo, subalaribus cinnamomeoc-albidis ; rostro nigro, mandibula ad basin pallida, pedibus cory- 
linis. Long. tota 5:3, ale 2°9, caude 2, rostri a rictu 0°45, tarsi 0-75. (Descr. exempl. typ. Costa Rica. 
Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari omnino similis, sed coloribus omnibus paulo obscurioribus. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Rancho Redondo (J. M. Dow 12), Guadalupe ®, San Jose 45 (v. Frant- 
zius), Turrialba, Navarro (Cooper *), Irazu (fogers) ; Panama, Cordillera del Chucu 
(Arcé ?). | 
The first specimen of this bird was given to us by Captain J. M. Dow in 1863. It 
was contained in a small collection of Costa-Rican birds, which Capt. Dow had brought 
from the interior of the country, and had on board his ship when Salvin passed down 
the coast in the spring of that year. We have since ascertained that this collection 
was made near Rancho Redondo. | | 
The busy collectors of Costa Rica soon made Calliste dowt a familiar bird in our 
cabinets ; and subsequently Arcé. ~vhose labours in the State of Panama have done so 
