^CALLISTE FASTUOSA. 



THE SUPERB TANAGER. 



PLATE IV. 



Tanagra fastuosa .... Ijcss. Cent. Zool. pi. 58. p. 184, 



Calliste fastuosa Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 20. 



* Bp. Consp. p. 235. 



Sclater, Cont. Orn. 1851, p. 52; Tan. Cat. Sp. 

 p. 11. sp.6. 



Tatao fastuosus ■. . Bp. R. Z. 1851, p. 142; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 16. 



Mas adultus. Fronte, mento, gutture medio et interscapulio 

 velutino-nigris : dorso postico aurantiaco : capite et cervice 

 tota cum vitta gulam transeunte Isetissinie cseruleo-viridibus: 

 alls caudaque nigris, purpureo marginatis : tectricibus alarum 

 minoribus Isetissime cseruleis : secondariarum trium ultimarum 

 marginibus externis pallide aureis : abdomine toto purpureo, 

 pectore lilacescente : long, tota 5'5, alee 2"8, caudse 2*0. 



Fcemina. Mari similis, nisi capite viridescentiore cseruleo. 



There is very little information, I regret to say, to communicate 

 concerning this Tanager, which is certainly one of the most brilliantly 

 coloured of the group. It is not very common in collections. The 

 British and Paris Museums have long contained examples, but the bird 

 was otherwise not generally well known until M. Parzudaki, of Paris, 

 a short time since received several examples from Pernambuco. We 

 conclude, therefore, that this part of Brazil is its native country, and 

 that it does not range much farther south, as it is never met with 

 among the birdskins so largely imported now-a-days from Bahia 

 and Ri@ di Janeir®. 



Lesson, who first described and figured this Tanager in his 

 " Centurie Zoologique," merely mentions Brazil as its habitat, and 

 gives us no further intelligence concerning it. 



The curious golden spots on the extremities of the outer secondaries 

 serve to distinguish this Calliste from every other member of the 

 genus. 



