1/2 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



TANAGRELLA IRIDINA (Hartlaub). 



Tanagra iridina Hartl., Rev. Zool. 1841. p. 305. 

 Tanagrella iridina Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 18. 



Berlepsch and Hartert report a single specimen, a male, collected 

 at Suapure on the Caura River and sent by Klages to the Tring 

 Museum, and there is an adult male from La Union on the Caura 

 River in the American Museum collection that was collected by 

 Klages October loth. This specimen agrees exactly with one from 

 Bogota in the same collection. 



TANGARA PARADISEA (Swainson). 



Aglaia paradisea Swains., Class. Birds, II. 1837. p. 286. 

 Calliste paradisea Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 18. 



Collected on the Caura River at Suapure by Klages and at 

 Nicare by Andre, and recorded in the Berlepsch and Hartert paper. 



TANGARA XANTHOGASTRA (Sclater). 



Calliste xanthogastra Scl., Contr. Orn. 1851. pp. 23, 55; Berlepsch & 

 Hartert, p. 19. 



Berlepsch and Hartert report this species as also taken on the 

 Caura at Nicare by Andre. 



TANGARA CAYANA.CAYANA (Linnaeus). 

 Tanagra cay ana L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12. I. 1766. p. 315. 

 Calliste cayana Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 19. 



This is the most abundant species of this group of Tanagers to 

 be found along the Orinoco. Specimens were collected at many 

 points from Ciudad Bolivar up to above the falls of Maipures; Klages 

 collected a series at Maripa on the Caura River during December, 

 February, April and May. 1 



In life the eye is dark sepia brown ; bill blackish above and slate 

 color below; feet light slate color. Adult birds of this species if held 

 between the observer and the light, on a level or slightly below the 

 level of the eye, appear a beautiful iridescent golden bronze both 

 above and below. 



"Am. Mus. Coll. 



