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it. It is known by the Brazilians as " G-uarratan," a name, however, 

 which it shares with the Euphonia and some other Tanagers. 

 Eyes brown. 



15. EUPHONIA VIOLACEA. 



This violet-and-yellow Tanager I found sparingly round Eecife, 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 " Gruarratan," 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 occasionally 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 I 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 

 Ibis, 1881, it is also to be found considerably nearer to the coast than the localities I 

 P- 332> saw it in. 



Eyes brown. 



17. CALLISTE FESTIVA. 



I only saw this beautiful Oalliste once, when I fell in with a small 

 party of it in a patch of virgin forest near Quipapa, and succeeded in 

 shooting a fine male. 



Eyes brown. 



18. CALLISTE FLAVA. 



This beautiful, though peculiarly coloured, bird is, perhaps with the 

 exception of Tanagra cana, the commonest Tanager in the provinces I 



* P.Z.S. 1880, pp. 143-147, " On the Structure of the Stomach in certain Genera 

 of Tanagers." 



