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10. CALLISTE. 



Type. 



Calliste, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 974 0. tricolor. 



Afilaia, Sjv. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 347 (1827) 0. tatao. 



Calospiza, G. R. Grmj, List of Gen. B. p. 44 (1840) C. tricolor. 



Gyrola, Reichenh. Av. Si/st. Nat. t. Ixxvii. (1850) . . C. gyi'ola. 



Tatao, £p. C. JR. xxxii. p. 80 (1851) C. tatao. 



Chrysothraupis, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 142 C. auruleuta. 



Ixotbraupis, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 143 C. punctata. 



Cbalcothraupis, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 144 0. labradorides. 



Euschemon, Scl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. Uo 0. flava. 



Euprepiste, Scl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 95 C. brasiliensis. 



The most numerous and, as its name implies, perhaps the most 

 beautiful group of the tj-pical Tanagers is widely diffused in the 

 Neotropical Region, from the forests of Tabasco in Southern Mexico 

 to those of Paraguay and Southern Brazil. On the western slope of 

 the Andes Callistce only occur as far south as the Gulf of Guyaquil. 

 Thus the Patagoniau Subregion is entirely without this form, and 

 but one species has yet been detected iu the AntiUean Subregion. 

 In the Central-American Subregion, as Messrs. Salviu and Godman 

 have shown us, nine species are found, and the genus reaches its 

 maximum of development in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, and 

 Peru. 



Salmon found three species of Calliste nesting in the State of 

 Antioquia. The nest is open, made outwardly of moss, and lined 

 with fine roots, fibres, and horsehair. The eggs are pale greenish 

 in colour, more or less thickly spotted and blotched with various 

 shades of brown *. See also Euler's description of the nest and 

 eggs of Calliste tricolor (J. f. 0. 1867, p. 410). 



The sixty-one species of Calliste known to me may be divided for 

 convenience into twelve sections, for which, however, it is only 

 possible to give general characters of plumage. 



Sect. I. Group of C. tatao. 



Cap of bright green, squamosa feathers ; rump bright scarlet or yellow. 



(2 species.) p. 96. 



SEcr. II. Group of C. tricolor. 



General plumage bright green or blue, varied with yellow and red ; body 

 beneath not spotted. (8 species.) p. 98, 



Sect. III. Group of C. punctata. 



General phmiage gi'een ; breast and belly more or less spotted with 

 rounded black spots. (6 species.) p. 103. 



Sect. IV. Group of C. aurulenta. 



Plumage generally of a golden yellow ; interscapuhum black, variegated 

 with yellow (5 species.) p. 108. 



» See P. Z. S. 1879, p. 498, pi. xlii. fig. 2. 



