and other Species of Calliste. 409 



Hab. iu rep. Equatorial! (reg. sylvatica orientali)^ ad ripas 

 fl. Napo. 



Obs. A Calliste cyanoti (PI. XII. fig. 2) superciliis latis et 

 cloiigatisj regione auricular! interscapulioque oraniuo nigris 

 et frontis vitta cserulea nulla diversa. 



While the only known example of the present species is 

 from the Rio-Napo district of Western Ecuador, Calliste 

 cyanotis is, as we are now assured by the receipt of Mr. 

 Buckley's specimen, a Bolivian species. Mr. Buckley ob- 

 tained it near Tilotilo, in the province of Yungas, along with 

 the other members of the genus which, as above mentioned, 

 Mr. Salvin and I have described as new from his collection. 

 Both C. melanotis and C. cyanotis are, in fact, southern re- 

 presentatives of Calliste labradorides of Columbia, with which, 

 however, they are by no means nearly identical. In the last- 

 named species the bright green of the lower back is con- 

 tinued up over the interscapulium, and the whole of the side 

 of the head is of the same shining green, connected with the 

 back by a posterior cervical band. 



Having pointed out the characters which separate C. me- 

 lanotis from its allies, I will now say a few words on some of 

 the rarer species on which I have recently obtained more 

 complete information. 



Of Calliste lavinia, originally described by Mr. Cassin from 

 a specimen obtained during the American Survey of the 

 Isthmus of Darien, several examples have lately been received 

 in this country. Messrs. Salvin and Godman's collection 

 contains skins from Veragua [Arce] , Costa Rica ( Van Patten) , 

 and Chontales, in Nicaragua*. Amongst them is a female, 

 which is of a nearly uniform green, without any red on the 

 head or wings, but with a cyanescent tinge on the belly. 

 This was obtained by Arce in Veragua. Mr. Thomas Belt 

 also procured several skins of this Tanager during his resi- 

 dence on the gold-fields of Chontales ; and I am indebted to 

 him for the fine male specimen which is in my collection. 



Calliste fionda, described and figured by Mr. Salvin and 

 myself in the P. Z. S. for 1869 (p. 417, pi. xxviii.), was 

 * Cf. .Salvin, Ibis, 1872, p. 31o. 



