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Calobre and the Volcan de Chiriqui, doubtless in the highland forests. A pair of these 

 birds were figured by Sclater and Salvin in ' Exotic Ornithology ' *. 



Little has been recorded of the habits of C. callophrys ; but Dr. v. Frantzius says 

 that it is found during the whole year throughout the higher mountains of Costa Eica, 

 and that it is kept in cages and fed on fruit, less for its song than for its beautiful 

 plumage. 



C. callophrys, though very like C. occipitalis in its general appearance, may readily 

 be distinguished by the honey-yellow stripe which runs across the forehead and over 

 each eye as far back as the nape. The post-cervical ring of blue is more developed, 

 and the blue spot on the head largef, and with a lilac tinge in certain lights. 



3. Chlorophonia cyanodorsalis. 



Euphonia cyaneidorsalis, Dubois, Rev. Zool. 1859, p. 49, t. 2 '. 



" Macula laete cserulea in capite, ut in dorso, teotricibus suboaudalibusque abdomine medio crissoque flavis ; 

 supra, tectrioibus alarum rectricibusque pulchra viridifcate, lateribus capitis, epigastrii abdominisque paulo 

 nitentioribus ; alis caudaque infra fusco-griseis. Rostro caerulescente basi albicante ; pedibus cserules- 

 centibus.'' (Dubois, ut su^rd). 



Hah. Guatemala 1. 



Nothing more is known of this species than the description of Dubois given above ; 

 this is accompanied by a figure representing a species which certainly seems allied to 

 Chlorophonia occipitalis, but obviously differing from it in having a blue back. The 

 specimen, which we have never seen, is said to have been sent from Guatemala. 



With such scanty materials it would be rash to say much respecting this bird ; but, 

 judging from analogy, we believe the type to be a female, and that the male will prove 

 to have a pectoral band as in the allied forms. 



EUPHONIA. 



Euphonia, Desmarest, Hist. Nat. des Tangaras &c. t. 19 (1805). 

 Phonasca, Cabanis, J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 330. 



A characteristic Neotropical genus of Tanagers, containing about thirty-five species, 

 of which eleven occur within our limits. Of these eleven, only three are also found in 

 the South-American continent, viz. -.—E. minuta, which spreads over the whole of the 

 northern part of South America and enters Central America as far north as Guatemala ; 

 E. laniirostris, which keeps to the western side of the continent from Bolivia to Mexico ; 

 and E. fulvicrissa, which is only found in the northern portion of Colombia and in the 

 State of Panama. The remaining eight species are all peculiar to Mexico and Central 

 America. Of the eleven Central-American species no less than ten are found in Costa 

 Eica, and but four in Southern Mexico. Guatemala has five, and the State of Panama 

 seven. All the five Mexican and Guatemalan species are found in Costa Eica and 

 Panama, which again have four peculiar species, as well as two of wider southern range. 



