CALLISTE TRICOLOR, 



THE GREEN-HEADED TANAGEll. 



PLATE III. 



Tang, cayanensis varia chlorocephalos, Briss, Orn. vi, App. p. 59. 



Tang, varie atete verte, Buff. PI. Enl.. 32. fig. I (S). 



Le tricolor Buff. H. N. iv. 276 (partim). 



Tanagra tricolor Gm. S. N. 1. 891. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 428. 

 Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 779- 

 Temm. PL Col. 215. fig. 1 ( ? ). 



Tanagra tatao. ....... Max, Beitr. iii. 459. 



Calliste tricolor Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 1. 



Bp. Consp. p.234. 



Sclater, Cont. Orn. 1861, p. 51 ; Tan. Cat. Sp. p. 11. 

 sp. 4., 



Callispiza tricolor .... Cab, Mus. Hein. p. 26. 



Tatao tricolor Bp.R.Z. 1851, p. 141 ; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 16. 



Tangara tricolor male . Desm, Tan. pi. 3. 



Green-headed Tanager, Lath. G. H. vi. p. 24. 



Mas adultus. Laete viridis : rostri ambitu et colic antico inter- 

 scapulioque nigris : capita undique et vitta gulam summam 

 transeunte Isete cserulescenti-viridibus : pectore cseruleo : 

 dorsi postici parte superiore flammea : tectricibus alarum su- 

 perioribus purpureis : rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 

 5-2, alse 27, caudse 2-L 



Foemina et mas junior. Marl adulto similis, sed coloribus omnibus 

 obscurioribus ; dorse postico flavo. 



The Calliste tricolor is one of the best known of the present group 

 of Tanagers, being imported in great numbers to this country from 

 Rio and Bahia. I have frequently seen large draw^ers full of bird- 

 skins in the shops of the London dealers composed solely of indi- 

 viduals of this species and of Calliste f estiva and Calliste thoracica. 



Though confounded by the older authors with Calliste f estiva, 

 and by others vnth the tatao, it is, I need hardly observe, quite 

 distinct from both of them, and indeed from every other member of 

 this genus. 



