272 TANAGEIDiE. 



and Mr. Sclater's descriptions, so far as we know, still remains unique. We have made 

 several attempts to obtain more specimens, and wrote to the late Dr. Bernoulli about 

 it, but without result. Dr. Bernoulli, in reply to our questions, said that it was he, 

 as Salvin supposed 2, who obtained the original specimen, but that he had never 

 been able to secure another. 



The Costa Cuca, lying as it does on the Mexican frontier, near to Soconusco on the 

 Pacific coast, is far from the haunts of the bird-hunters of Vera Paz ; and it is only 

 through some resident in that remote district interested in birds that we may hope for 

 further news of this interesting species. 



We have long entertained some hopes of its being found in the State of Chiapas, and 

 that we should hear of it through Professor Sumichrast ; but, owing to the death of 

 that industrious naturalist, this hope, too, is gone. 



As Mr. Sclater remarks, this fine large Calliste, nearly equalling in size C. brasiliensis, 

 comes perhaps nearer to C. atricapilla than to any other species 2. 



The type specimen was submitted to Mr. Sclater in 1868, when we had an opportu- 

 nity of examining it. A figure of it was then taken, which accompanies Mr. Sclater's 

 paper. 



The name C. sclateri, originally proposed for this Calliste by Dr. Cabanis, being 

 inadmissible, there being already a Calliste of that name proposed by Lafresnaye, 

 Mr, Sclater returned Dr. Cabanis's compliment by renaming the species Calliste cabanisi, 

 which will remain its future title. 



7. Calliste dowi. 



Calliste dowi, Salv. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 168'; 1870, p. 187 ^ Scl. Ibis, 1863, p. 451, 1. 12"; Lawr. 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 98 " ; v. Frantz. J. i. Orn. 1869, p. 298 \ 



Supra nigra, nuchse et cervicis laterum plumis argenteseenti-viridi terminatis, pilei margine postico ockrascente 

 marginato ; uropygio argenteseenti-viridi ; tectricibus, supracaudalibus, alis et cauda CEeruleo marginatis ; 

 subtus gula tota nigra, pectore antico nigro plumis singuKs viridesoente cinnamomeo marginatis, abdomine 

 toto cinnamomeo, subalaribus cinnamomeo-albidis ; rosfcro nigro, mandibula ad basin pallida, pedibus cory- 

 linis. Long, tota 5*3, alse 2-9, caudse 2, rostri a rictu 0"45, tarsi 0"75. (Descr. exempl. typ. Costa Eica. 

 Mus. nostr.) 

 5 mari omnino simUis, sed coloribns omnibus paulo obsourioribus. 



Eab. Costa Eica, Eancho Redondo (/. M. Dow ^ % Guadalupe ^, San Jose ^ ^ {v. Frant- 

 zius), Turrialba, Navarro {Coo;per% Irazu {Rogers) ; Panama, Cordillera del Chucu 

 {Arc6 2). 



The first specimen of this bird was given to us by Captain J. M. Dow in 1863. It 

 was contained in a small collection of Costa-Rican birds, which Capt. Dow had brought 

 from the interior of the country, and had on board his ship when Salvin passed down 

 the coast in the spring of that year. We have since ascertained that this collection 

 was made near Eancho Eedondo. 



The busy collectors of Costa Eica soon made Calliste dowi a familiar bird in our 

 cabinets ; and subsequently Arce, whose labours in the f»tftte of Panama have d^ne so 



