in North-eastern Brazil. 331 



blossoms its meal of insects, mixed, no doubt, with the nectar 

 of the flowers. It has a weak, though rather pleasing, song 

 of a few notes, the last note being considerably more powerful 

 than those that precede it. It is known by the Brazilians as 

 " Guarratan,'' a name, however, which it shares with the 

 Euphonia and some other Tanagers. 

 Eyes brown. 



15. Euphonia violacea. 



This violet-and-yellow Tanager I i^found sparingly round 

 Recife, and also at Parahyba, both in gardens and in the 

 vicinity of high forest. I did not, unfortunately, see enough 

 of its habits to throw any light upon the raison d'etre of the 

 peculiarly-developed stomach of this genus, a feature first 

 observed by the late Dr. Lund, and lately redescribed and 

 figured by myself^. This bird is kept commonly as a cage- 

 bird by the Brazilians, who call it " Guarratan/^ a name, as 

 already observed, also applied to several other small brightly 

 plumaged birds. 



16. Calliste fastuosa. 



This very beautiful Tanager, to my mind one of the finest 

 of the beautiful genus it belongs to, is believed to be peculiar 

 to the province of Pernambuco, from which skins are occa- 

 sionally received by the dealers in Paris and elsewhere. It 

 is a species often seen, too, alive in the larger Zoological 

 Gardens of Europe, though no naturalist seems to have yet met 

 with it in the wild state. It does not appear to be common 

 in Pernambuco — at least I only met with it twice, once near 

 Macuca, where I shot a female out of some bushy capoeira, 

 and again at Quipapa, where I saw what 1 believe was this 

 species in the virgin forest. The bird, however, was perched at 

 a great height from the ground, in the topmost branches of a 

 large tree, and only the brilliant orange-yellow of its rump 

 was visible. Whilst staying at Cabo, a freshly shot adult of 

 this bird was also brought to me to skin, so that probably 



« P. Z. S. 1880, pp. 143-147, " On the Structm-e of the Stomach iu 

 certain Genera of Tanagers." 



