268 TANAGEID^. 



Calliste chrysophrys, Scl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 34, t. 69. f. 3, & p. 54'. 



Calliste guttulata, Bp. Compt. Rend, xxxii. p.. 76 ". 



Spotted Emerald Tanager, Lath. Gen. Hist. Birds, vi. p. 19. 



Supra airrescenti-Yiridis, capitis totius et dorsi antice plumis medialiter nigris, viridi marginatis, fronte et 

 regione oculari aureis, loris nigris ; alis et cauda fusoo-nigris, hao viridi, illis caerulescenti-viridi marginatis, 

 subtus alba cseruleseente tincta et guttis rotundis prsecipue in pectore perfusa, maeulis his in gula minori- 

 hus ; hypochondi'iis et crisso flavo-viresoentibus ; rostro nigricante, pedibus obscure corylinis. Long, tota 

 4-5, alsB 2-5, caudsB 1-8, rostri a rietu 0-5, tarsi 0-75. (Descr. maris ex Tucurriqui, Costa Eica. Mus. 

 nostr.) 



5 mari similis, sed coloribus minus claris. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Tucurriqui (Arce), Angostura ^, Dota ^ [Carmiol), Turrialba {Cooper) ; 

 Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui {ArcS'^). — South Amekica, from Colombians to 

 Ecuador ^ lo^ g^d to Venezuela ^, Trinidad ^ ^\ and Guiana ^. 



Mr. Henry Whitely has recently sent us skins of this bird from Eoraima in British 

 Guiana, the same locality whence Schomburgk obtained the types described by Dr. 

 Cabanis ^. Our examples from Eoraima agree fairly well with others from other 

 points of the range of the species; but we notice that the underparts are much less 

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

 plain. 



Venezuelan and Trinidad examples agree closely with our series from Costa Rica 

 and the State of Panama; and should they be hereafter considered distinct from 

 the Roraima bird, they all should bear the name C. chrysophrys, Scl. 



Though this Tanager was known to Latham, and described in his ' General History 

 of Birds ' under the title of the Spotted Emerald Tanager ", it was confused with an 

 allied species, Calliste punctata (L.), until the year 1850, when Dr. Cabanis gave it its 

 present name ; and almost at the same time, or shortly after, as Mr. Sclater tells us, it 

 received two other appellations at the hands of Mr. Sclater and Prince Bonaparte. AU 

 this is explained in the monograph of the genus Calliste written and published by the 

 former ornithologist ^. 



The range of Calliste guttata is somewhat remarkable, spreading as it does along 

 the whole of the north coast of South America, then turning northwards to Costa Rica, 

 and southwards to Ecuador. 



Regarding its record from the last-named country, we observe that the single example 

 obtamed by Bourcier from Mindos, in the north-western portion of the Republic, which 

 formed the type of Bonaparte's C guttulata, is the Only one we have heard of from so 

 far south. Neither Eraser nor Buckley met with it, nor have we seen specimens in the 

 many collections we have examined from Ecuador. It is also worthy of note that the 

 species IS also absent from the list of Salmon's collections from Antioquia. But it is 

 not uncommon m trade collections sent from Bogota ; and Mr. C. W. Wyatt found it 

 m the mountains above Ocana «. It is absent from the line of the Panama railway ; but 

 appears on the slopes of the Volcan de Chiriqui, and in several parts of the eastern 

 side of Costa Rica. 



