274 TANAGRIDA. 
Of its habits little has reached us. The Messrs. Wood merely remark that they 
found it in the same trees as C. franciscew (=J/arvata), of which they believed it to be 
the female or young male. M‘Leannan found it breeding, the nests being placed in 
low trees °. 
9. Calliste larvata. 
Calliste larvata, DuBus, Esq. Orn. t.9'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 260°; Mon. Call. p. 81, t. 36°; 
Cat. Am. B. p. 704; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 16°; 1860, p. 33°; P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 836"; 
1879, p. 499°; Salv. Ibis, 1872, p. 316°. 
Aglaia fanny, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 72"°; Des Murs, Icon. Orn. t. 56. f. 1". 
Calliste francisce, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 261%; Mon. Call. p. 83%; Cassin, Pr. ac. Phil. 1860, 
p. 142“, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. pp. 298°, 332°; viii. pp. 175, 179"; ix. p. 98": 
Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 350”; Salv. P. Z.S. 1867, p.188”; 1870, p. 187”; v. Frantz. 
J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 298”. 
Capite colloque toto cum gula nitidissime cuprescenti-aureis ; rostri ambitu nigro ; pileo antico et capitis late- 
ribus ceruleis, hujus coloris margine posteriore in viridescentem transeunte ; interscapulio, alis caudaque 
cum pectore toto nigris; tectricibus alarum minoribus ceruleis, mediarum autem et majorum cum dorso 
postico cyaneis ; remigibus et tectricibus aurescenti-viridi limbatis ; abdomine medio albo utrinque ceruleo, 
 lateribus viridescentibus ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. tota 5:2, ale 2°8, caude 1-9, rostri a rictu 0°55, 
tarsi 0°6. (Descr. maris ex Choctum, Guatemala, Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari omnino similis sed coloribus paulo dilutioribus. Av. hornot. inornata sed capite toto et uropygio semper 
viridescente tinctis. 
Hab. Mexico, Tabasco (Ghiesbreght1); British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaua) ; 
GuatemaLa, Yzabal ®, Choctum, Chisec (0. 8S. & &. D. G.); Honpuras, Rio Chame- 
lican (Dyson 22°), San Pedro (G. M. Whitely’); Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt °), 
Greytown (Holland); Costa Rica (v. Frantzius??), Angostura (Carmiol !), 
Turrialba (Cooper !®, Arcé), San José (Cooper); Panama, David (Hicks ™, 
Bridges 1”), Bugaba 2°, Vivala, Mina de Chorcha **, Chitra °°, Laguna del Castillo 7”, 
Cordillera de Tolé 21, Calovevora ?*, Santa Fé?! (Arcé), Veraguas (Delattre !° }?), 
Lion-Hill Station (fLeannan ¥ 16 °°), Paraiso Station (Hughes), Turbo (Wood 14). 
—Co Lomsia § 1011, 
The distinctness of the more southern Calliste francisce from the more northern 
C. larvata was long urged, and we have got together a large series of skins with the 
object of coming to a conclusion on this point. The result has been that, with 
the growth of our series the distinctness of the two birds has diminished, until 
we feel convinced that to maintain them as distinct is no longer advisable. This 
much, however, must be noticed, that Guatemalan birds have as a rule a darker copper- 
coloured throat than is found in birds from Panama, and in some of the latter, though 
by no means all, the edgings of the greater wing-coverts is evanescent. But, looking 
at the whole series of skins from all parts of the range of the species, it will be seen 
that these differences are variable and, at the most, slight. 
Calliste larvata was discovered in the Mexican province of Tabasco by Ghiesbreght 
