BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEBIC A. 53 



Venezuela' (Angostura); island of Grenada, Lesser Antilles. 



Alglaia'] cucullata Swainson, Orn. Drawings, 1841, pi. 7. 



C[alliste'] cucullata Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 366. 



ICalKste'] cucullata Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 234.— Sclater and Salvin, 



Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 19. 

 Calliste cucullata Bonaparte, Eev. efMag. de ZooL, iii, 1851, 140; Note sur les 

 Tang., 1851, 14.— Sclater, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1851, 63 (" Brazil ") ; Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 19, 253 (monogr.); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 79; 

 Monograph Calliste, 1857, 45, pi. 20 (Angostura, Venezuela); Ibis, 1876, 

 410; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886 113, part (Venezuela).— Bormeistbr, 

 Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 183 ("Brazil").— Cory, Cat. Birds W. I., 

 1892, 114, 151 (Grenada, Lesser Antilles). 



Calliste versicolor (not of Lawrence, 1878) Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 

 1879, 269 (Grenada); ix, 1886, 613 (Grenada; habits; descr. nest and eggs).— 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 113, part (Grenada; Venezuela). 



[Calliste'] versicolor Cory, List Birds W. I., revised ed., 1886, 11, part. 



CALOSPIZA VERSICOLOR (Lawrence). 

 ST. VUfCENT TANAGER. 



Similar to C. cucullata, but larger and lighter colored, the pileum 

 clear light chestnut or chestnut-tawny instead of very dark chestnut 

 or seal brown. 



Adult male. — Pileum clear, bright, light chestnut or tawny-chestnut; 

 loral, suborbital, and auricular regions dusky, the last with feathers 

 tipped with dull green or grayish green; hindneck, back, scapulars, 

 and rump opalescent, changing from light silvery green to golden buff 

 or even pinkish, according to direction of the light; upper tail-coverts 

 dull grayish green; lesser and middle wing -coverts dull grayish bluish 

 green; outer webs of greater coverts similar but more decidedly green; 

 remiges and rectrices black broadly edged with dull green or grayish 

 green, the outer webs of tertials and the middle rectrices almost wholly 

 of this color; chin and upper throat pale greenish grayish, the feathers 

 darker basally, producing an indistinctly freckled appearance; rest of 

 under parts opalescent, changing from blue to lilac and golden accord- 

 ing to direction of the light; under tail-coverts cinnamon, and more or 

 less of this color showing on under parts of the body where plumage 

 is disarranged; maxilla brownish black, mandible horn color (in dried 

 skins); iris brown; legs and feet dusky horn color (in dried skins); 

 length (skins), 144.8-157.6 (149.4); wing, Y6. 7-78.7 (77.5); tail, 54.4- 

 55.9 (55.1); exposed culmen, 12.4-13.2 (12.7); depth of bill at base 

 (one specimen), 6.9; tarsus, 20.8-21.3 (21.1); middle toe, 14-14.7 (14.5).' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but pileum lighter, more 

 tawny; hindneck, back, scapulars, and rump dull opalescent green, 

 changing to bright yellowish green and golden buffy; under parts 



'I have not seen specimens from Venezuela; they may, or may not, be identical 

 with Grenada examples. 

 'Four specimens. 



