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Of its habits little has reached us. The Messrs. Wood merely remark that they 

 found it in the same trees as C. frandscce {=larvata), of which they believed it to be 

 the female or young male. M'Leannan found it breeding, the nests being placed in 

 low trees ^. 



9. Calliste larvata. 



Calliste larvata, DuBus, Esq. Orn. t. 9'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 260='; Mon. CaU. p. 81, t. 36'; 



Cat. Am. B. p. 70*; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 16'; 1860, p. 33 '; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 836'; 



1879, p. 499 '; Salv. Ibis, 1873, p. 316'. 

 Aglaia fanny, Lafr. Eev. Zool. 1847, p. 73"; Des Murs, Icon. Orn. t. 56. f. 1 ", 

 Calliste francisca, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 361"; Mon. Call. p. 83"; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, 



p. 143", Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. pp. 398 '=, 333"; viii. pp. 175 ", 179"; ix. p. 98 " : 



Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 350 ="' ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 138 "' ; 1870, p. 187 " ; v. Frantz. 



J. f. Om. 1869, p. 398 ^\ 



Capite oolloque toto cum gula nitidissime cupreacenti-aureis ; rostri ambitu nigro ; pileo antico et capitis late- 

 ribus caeruleis, bujus coloris margine posteriore in viridesoentem transeunte ; interscapulio, alis caudaque 

 cum pectore toto nigris ; tectricibus alarum minoribus cseruleis, mediarum autem et majorum cum dorso 

 postico cyaneis ; remigibus et tectricibus aurescenti-viridi limbatis ; abdomine medio albo utrinque cseruleo, 

 lateribus viridesoentibus ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tota 5-2, alse 2-8, caudae 1-9, rostri a rictu 0-55, 

 tarsi 0"6. (Descr. maris ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



2 man omnino similis sed coloribus paulo dUutioribus. Av. bornot. inomata sed capite toto et uropygio semper 

 viridescente tLuctis. 



Eah. Mexico, Tabasco ( Ghieshreght i) ; British Hondueas, Belize {Blancaneaux) ; 

 Guatemala, Yzabal ^, Choctum, Chisec {0.S.& F. B. G.) ; Honduras, Rio Chame- 

 lican {Byson^^% San Pedro {Q. M. Whitely'^); Nicaragua, Chontales {Belt% 

 Greytown {Holland '^^) ; Costa Rica {v. Frantzius^^), Angostura {Carmiol'^% 

 Turrialba (Coojoer^^, ArcS), San Jose {Cooper ^^); Panama, David {Ricks ^'', 

 Bridges 12), Bugaba 22, Vivala, Mina de Chorcha 22, Chitra 22, Laguna del Castillo 22, 

 Cordillera de Tole 21, Ca]ovevora22, Santa Fe2i {ArcS), Veraguas {Belattre ^^ ^^), 

 Lion-Hill Station {M'Leannan ^^ ^^20^^ Paraiso Station {Hughes), Turbo {Wbod^^). 

 — Colombia ^ 10 11. 



The distinctness of the more southern Calliste frandscce from the more northern 

 C. larvata was long urged, and we have got together a large series of skins with the 

 object of coming to a conclusion on this point. The result has been that, with 

 the growth of our series the distinctness of the two birds has diminished, until 

 we feel convinced that to maintain them as distinct is no longer advisable. This 

 much, however, must be noticed, that Guatemalan birds, have as a rule a darker copper- 

 coloured throat than is found in birds from Panama, and in some of the latter, though 

 by no means all, the edgings of the greater wing-coverts is evanescent. But, looking 

 at the whole series of skins from all parts of the range of the species, it will be seen 

 that these differences are variable and, at the most, slight. 



Calliste larvata was discovered in the Mexican province of Tabasco by Ghieshreght 



