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being almost confined to the chest, the throat and abdomen being 

 plain." 



Costa Rica (Tucurriqui; Angostura; Dota; Turrialba) and south- 

 ward through Colombia to Ecuador (Valle de Mindos), Venezuela 

 (Caracas; Puerto Cabello; San Cristobal) and Trinidad. 



Calliste chrysophrys Sclater, Jardine's Oontr. Orn., 1851, 24, 54, pi. 69, fig. 2 



(Venezuela; coll. P. L. Sclater) . 

 Calliste guttulata Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxii, 1851, 76 (Mindos, n. w. 



Ecuador). — Sclater, Tanagr. Cat. Specif . , 1854, 11; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1855, 157 (Bogota, Colombia); 1856, 19, part (Venezuela; Trinidad.) 

 Ixothraupis guttulata Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., iii, Mar., 1851, 144; 



Note sur les Tang., 1851, 18. 

 Calliste guttata (not Callispiza guttata Cabanis) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1856, 249, part (monogr.; Venezuela; Trinidad; Bogota, Colombia; "Ecua- 

 dor);" Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 75; Monogr. Calliste, 1857, 21, part, pi. 

 10 (Trididad; Caracas, Venezuela; Bogota, Colombia; valley of Mindos, 

 Ecuador); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 64 (Venezuela; Trinidad; Anolaima, 

 Colombia); Cat. Birds Brit; Mus., xi, 1886, 105, part (Puerto Cabello, Cara- 

 cas, and San Cristobal, Venezuela; Bogota, Colombia; s. slope Volcan de 

 Cbiriqui; Tucurriqui and Angostura, Costa Rica, etc.). — Taylor, Ibis, 

 1864, 82 (Trinidad) .—Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 

 627 (Venezuela); 1875, 237 (do.).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 

 98 (Angostur.a, Turrialba, and Dota, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Joum. fiir 

 Orn., 1869, 298 (Costa Rica).— Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 579 

 (Trinidad).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1870, 187 ( VolcandeChiriqui).— 

 Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 325 (Ocana, Colombia). — Salvin and Godman, Biol.Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i, 1883, 267, part (Turrialba, etc., Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui; 

 Colombia; Ecuador; Venezuela; Trinidad) . — Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1884, 289 (Bucaramauga, Colombia). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 

 1887, 109 (Turrialba).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 29 (Trini- 

 dad). 



[Calliste'] guttata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 19, part (Vene- 

 zuela; Colombia; Ecuador; Costa Rica). 



C [allistel guttata Dubois, Bull. Ac. Roy. Belg., xxxviii, 1874 (5) (crit.). 



{Calliste punctatal var. a. guttata Dubois, Bull. Ac. Roy. Belg., xxxviii, July, 

 1874 (7), part (Venezuela; Trinidad). 



CALOSPIZA CABANISI Sclater. 



CABANIS TANAGER. 



Adult {malef). — "Above greenish blue; wings and tail black, mar- 

 gined with blue; interscapulium green; cap black, margined with blue; 

 beneath pale greenish blue, middle of belly whitish; breast-feathers 

 spotted with black; bill black, at base plumbeous; feet black; whole 

 length, 144.8; wing, 86.4; tail, 58.4.' 



".ff«5.— Costa Cuca district of Guatemala. 



"The characters are taken from the unique specimen in the Museum 

 of Berlin, which I examined in 1868." (Sclater.) 



' Original measurements given in inches and tenths. 



