596 On two Additions to the Genus Calliste. 



In 1873 the Callista; were again catalogued by Salvin and 

 myself in our ' Nomenclator Avium Neotropicalium,' and 56 

 valid species were recognised as then known to us. 



LastiV; in 1886, the species of Calliste were re-examined 

 and characterized in the eleventh volume of the ' Catalogue 

 of the Birds in the British Museum.' They were then arranged 

 in 12 sections, and 61 species were recognized as valid. 



In 1891 Mr. Allen added to these a sixty- second species 

 by describing Calliste margarito; CBull. Am. Mus. iii. p. 351) 

 from Chapada, in Matto Grosso. I am not aware of any 

 other species of this genus having been characterized since 

 the publication of the British Museum Catalogue in 1886 

 until December of last year, when M. le Comte R. de Dalmas 

 sent, through Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, to the British Ornitho- 

 logists' Club descriptions of two new species recently dis- 

 covered in the forests of Buenaventura, in the U.S. of 

 Colombia [Calliste emilice and C.johannce), which were sub- 

 sequently published in the ' Bulletin ' of the B. O. C. (vol. xi. 

 pp. 35, 36). On these two species I will write a few lines 

 to accompany the figures of them now given. 



Calliste emilia (Plate XII. fig. 1) belongs to Section VI. 

 (group of C. gyrola) of the B. M. Catalogue (xi. p. 116), 

 and is a very close ally of C. lavinia of Costa Eica and 

 Veragua, from which it differs mainly in its blue throat and 

 more golden nape. 



The types of this species were procured, according to 

 Comte de Dalmas, in March and May, 1899, at San Jose 

 and El Paillon, near Buenaventura. The specimen in the 

 Tring Museum, from which the figure has been taken, Avas 

 obtained at S. Javier, on the Rio Cachave, in N.W. Ecuador 

 (see Ilartert, Nov. Zool. v. p. 477), by Mr. G. Flemming, in 

 July 1900. It is labelled by the collector " ^ : iris brown; 

 bill dark brown, below whitish.'^ 



Calliste johannee (Plate XII. fig. 2) belongs to the second 

 section of my arrangement of the genus Calliste (Cat. B. 



B. M. xi. p. 98, group of C. tricolor), and is allied to 



C. schranki and C. jiorida, but differs from C. schranki in 

 having the crown green instead of bright yellow, and in its 

 bluish-black throat, and from C. Jiorida in its bright yellow 



