BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 53 



Venezuela^ (Angostura); island of Grenada, Lesser Antilles. 



.Alglaiii] CMCwZZato SwAiNSON, Orn. Drawings, 1841, pi. 7. 



C\_aUiste'\ cucuUata Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 366. 



[Calliste] cucuUata Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 284. — Sclater and Salvin, 



Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 19. 

 CalUste cucuUata Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de ZooL, iii, 1851, 140; Note sur les 

 Tang., 1851, 14.— Sclater, Jardine'y Contr. Orn., 1851, 63 (" Brazil ") ; Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 19, 253 (monogr.); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 79; 

 Monograph Calliste, 1857, 45, pi. 20 (Angostura, Venezuela); Ibis, 1876, 

 410; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886 113, part (Venezuela). — Burmeister, 

 Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 183 ("Brazil").— Cory, Cat. Birds W. I., 

 1892, 114, 151 (Grenada, Lesser Antilles). 



CaUiste versicolor (not of Lawrence, 1878) Lawrence, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 

 1879, 269 (Grenada); ix, 1886, 613 (Grenada; habits; descr. nest and eggs).— 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 113, jjart (Grenada; Venezuela). 



[CaUiste^ versicolor Cory, List Birds W. I., revised ed., 1886, 11, part. 



CALOSPIZA VERSICOLOR (Lawrence). 

 ST. VINCENT TANAGER. 



Similar to C cucuUata., but larger and lighter colored, the pileunl 

 clear light chestnut or chestnut-tawny instead of very dark chestnut 

 or seal brown. 



Adult male. — Pileum clear, bright, light chestnut or tawny-chestiuit; 

 loral, suborbital, and auricular regions dusky, the last with feathers 

 tipped with dull green or grayish green; hindneck, back, scapulars, 

 and rump opalescent, changing from light silvery green to golden l)uff 

 or even pinkish, according to direction of the light; upper tail-coverts 

 dull grayish green; lesser and middle wing -coverts dull grayish bluish 

 green; outer webs of greater cov^erts similar but more decidedly green; 

 remiges and rectrices black broadly edged with dull green or grayish 

 green, the outer webs of tertials and the middle rectrices almost wholly 

 of this color; chin and upper throat pale greenish grayish, the feathers 

 darker basall3% producing an indistinctly freckled appearance; rest of 

 under parts opalescent, changing from blue to lilac and golden accord- 

 ing to direction of the light; under tail-coverts cinnamon, and more or 

 less of this color showing on under parts of the l)ody where plumage 

 is disarranged; maxilla brownish black, mandible horn color (in dried 

 skins); iris brown; legs and feet dusk}' horn color (in dried skins); 

 length (skins), 144.8-157.5 (149.4); wing, Y6.7-T8.T (77.5); tail, 54.4- 

 55.9 (55.1); exposed culmen, 12.4-13.2 (12.7); depth of bill at base 

 (one specimen), 6.9; tarsus, 20.8-21.3 (21.1); middle toe, 14-14.7 (14.5).' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but pileum lighter, more 

 tawny; hindneck, back, scapulars, and rump dull opalescent green, 

 changing to bright yellowish green and golden buft'y; under parts 



^ I have not seen specimens from Venezuela; they may, or may not, be identical 

 with Grenada examples. 

 ^Four specimens. 



