364 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
18. Calliste versicolor. “Sour-sop Bird.” 
MALE. Front, crown, and occiput of a bright deep chestnut-red ; 
upper plumage golden fawn-color, clearest on the sides of the neck 
and on the rump, in some positions showing a pale greenish-silvery 
gloss ; upper tail-coverts bluish-green; lores and partly under the 
eye black ; sides of the head and ear-coverts dull dark-green ; tail- 
feathers black, except the two middle ones, which, with the outer 
margins of the others, are bluish-green ; quills black, conspicuously 
edged with bluish-green ; wing-coverts black, with their exposed 
portions bluish-green ; under wing-coverts of a light salmon color ; 
the under plumage is changeable according to position ; viewed from 
the bill downward it is of a light bluish-lilac, the blue color deepest 
on the lower part of the throat and the upper part of the breast; on 
a side view the abdomen is of a purplish-red; the feathers of the 
upper part of the throat are tipped with gray ; the under tail-coverts 
are bright cinnamon color ; upper mandible black ; the under, light 
brownish horn color; tarsi and toes black. 
Length, 64 in.; wing, 33; tail, 24; tarsus, 18. 
The female differs in having the top of the head of a lighter chest- 
nut color, and the upper plumage of a pale green; the under plu- 
mage has the same colors as the male, but much subdued ; the abdo- 
men, sides, and under tail-coverts are of a light cinnamon color ; the 
wings and tail are black, but margined with a paler bluish-green; 
the markings about the head and on the throat are similar to those 
of the male, “iris hazel.” 
Length, 6 in.; wing, 34; tail, 24; tarsus, 43. 
Types in National Museum, Washington. 
REMARKS. This fine new species belongs to the group which 
contains C. vitriolina, cayana, cyanolema, and cucullata ; it some- 
what resembles the latter, a species I have never seen, but accord- 
ing to the plate (Mon. of Calliste, Scl.), the colors of the present 
bird are generally darker, with no tendency to ochreous-yellow 
above, as in C. cucud/ata, and the abdomen is purple instead of red- 
dish ochreous ; the crown is of a clearer and brighter chestaut-red. 
It is larger than any of its allies ; and a strikingly different character 
is its very large and stout bill, exceeding in size that of any of them I 
am acquainted with, being fully as large as the bill of Zanagra cana. 
No species of Calliste appears to be on record before from any of 
the West India islands proper. There are five specimens in the 
collection, three ¢ and two Q, procured in February, 1878. “Fre- 
quents the mountain ridges and valleys.” 
