Plate LXVIII. 



CHLOROPHONIA CALOPHRYS. 



(YELLOW-BEOWED CHLOEOPHONE). 



Triglyphidia callophrys 

 Acrocompsa callophrys 

 Chlorophonia calloplirys 



Cab. J.f. Orn. 1860, p. 331. 

 Cab. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 88. 

 Scl. & Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 84. 

 Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. ix. p. 



Clare viridis, occipite et linea cervicali postica saturate coeruleis, fronte efc superciliis latis ad nucham extensis 

 aureo-flayis: torque pectorali obscure castanea ; abdomine medio flavissimo : rostro nigro, pedibus obscure corylinis, 

 long, tota 5 0, ala? 3'0, cauda? 1-8. Fern, mari similis, sed fronte et superciliis viridibus, torque pectorali nullo et 

 abdomine minus flavicante. 



Hal. In Costa Bica (Hoffmann) : Veragua (Arce). 



Since we published our summary of the known species of Chlorophonia in the letterpress 

 accompanying the forty-second Plate of this work, we have been so fortunate as to obtain 

 specimens of the present species, before only known to us from the original example in the 

 Berlin Museum. Enrique Arce, during a recent excursion to the mountainous district upon the 

 northern slope of the Cordillera of Veragua, obtained six specimens of this lovely Tanager— 

 two males and four females. These are all marked as having been shot near the village of 

 Calovevora, where many other interesting species were also met with. By Mr. G. N. 

 Lawrence's recently published catalogue of the Costa-Eican birds in the collection of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, we find that additional specimens of this bird have also been procured 

 in that country, where the original example described by Dr. Cabanis was obtained. The 

 localities of its occurrence noted by Mr. Lawrence are Kancho Bedondo, San Jose, and 

 Birris. 



As will be apparent from our illustration, the Yellow-browed Chlorophone is closely allied 

 to the Mexican and Guatemalan Chlorophonia occipitalis, both sexes of which we have already 

 figured. But it is nevertheless a very well marked species— conspicuously distinct by its 

 golden-yellow front and broad superciliaries, of which colour there are no traces in its 

 northern congener. In the present bird, likewise, the blue on the crown instead of being 

 restricted to an occipital spot, is extended over the nape and is of a deeper and more 

 purplish hue. 



Our figures of this Tanager are taken from a pair of Arce's specimens, which are now in 

 Messrs. Salvin and Godman's collection. 



December, 1868. 



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