10. CALLISTE. 135 



Hah. Eastern Ecuador and jS". Peru. 



The black head and rather chestnut golden ear-coverts at once 

 separate this well-marked species from its allies. 



a. Ad. sk. Upper Amazons. Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Rio Napo. Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Machay, Ecuador {Stolzviann). Sclater Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Ecuador {Buckley). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Quito, Ecuador (Bruce). Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. Ecuador. L. Eraser [C.]. 



Sect. XII. Group of C. cyanoptera. 

 Cap black ; back silvery green. Female different from male. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Throat black, like the head ; belly silvery 



green : 



I wings black, edged with bhie . . 57. ajanoptera, p. 1.35. 

 I wings black 58. tckitelyi, p. 136. 



B. Throat and chest green; belly purplish. . 59. atricupilla, p. 136. 



C. Belly black : 



I throat shining fulvous 60. argentea, p. 137. 



( throat green 61. argyrophenges, p. 137. 



57. Calliste cyanoptera. 



Aglaia cyanoptera, Sw. Orn. Dr. pi. 8 (1841). 



Tanagra argentea, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 69. 



Calliste cyanoptera, ^/>. C'onsp. i. p. 234 ; id. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 140 ; 



id. Notes. I. Tang. p. 15 ; Sclat. Cuntr. Orn. 1851, p. 64 ; id. P. Z. 8. 



1856, pp. 19, 254; id. Mon. CalHst. p. 53, pi. 24; id. Syn. Av. 



Tan. p. 80 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 67 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 167 



(Caracas) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 19 ; Salv. et Godm. Ibis, 1879, p. 200, 



et 1880, p. 120 (Sierra Nevada of S. Marta). 

 Callispiza cyanoptera. Cab. Mus. Ilein. i. p. 27. 



Silvery green ; head and neck all round and wings and tail 

 black ; remiges and rectrices narrowly' edged with blue ; under 

 wing-coverts white ; bill black; feet brown : whole length 5-5 inches, 

 wing '6, tail 2. Female. Above green, brighter on the rump ; wings 

 and tail black edged with green : below paler, ashy on the throat 

 and breast, buffy white in the middle of the belly, and greenish on 

 the flanks. 



Hah. Venezuela and N. Colombia. 



a. S ad. St. Venezuela. Purchased. 



b,c. (5 $ ad. sk. Venezuela. Sclater Coll. 



d. c? ad. sk. Venezuela. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



e. S ad. sk. Venezuela. Gould CoU. 



f,g. (5 $ ad. sk.; Minca, Santa Marta, U. S. C. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. S ji'- sk. {Simons). 



i. cJ ad. sk. San Jos4, Santa Marta, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



U. S. C. {Simons). 



