^ CALLISTE SCHRANKL 



SCHRANK^S TANAGER. 



PLATE VIII. 



Tanagra schraukii .... Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 38. pi. 51 ( (? ) et ( $ ). 

 d'Orb. Voy. p. 270. pi. 24. fig. 1. 



Aglaia schrankii Lafr. et d' Orb. Syn.Av. in Mag.de Zool. 1837, p. 31. 



Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 122. 



Aglaia melanotis Sw. An. in Men. p. 355 ( $ ). 



Calliste schrankii .... Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 17- 

 Bp. Consp. p. 235. sp. 18. 



Sclater, Cont. Oru. 1851, p. 54 ; Tan. Cat. Sp. 

 p.ll.sp.l2; P.Z. S. 1854, p. 115. 



Callospiza schrankii . . Tsch. Wiegm. Arch. 1844, p. 286, et F. P. p. 201. 



Chrysothraupis schrankii, Bp. R. Z. 1851, p. 143; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 17- 



Mas adultus. Lsete viridis : interscapulii et secundariarum ulti- 

 marum pennis nigris, viridi marginatis : alis caudaque nigris 

 cserulescenti-viridi limbatis : fronte lata et capitis lateribus 

 nigris : pileo postico aureo ; dorso imo cum pectore et ventre 

 summo medialiter flavis : rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 

 4'6, alse 2" 7, caudse 1*7 poll. AngL 



Foemina. Mari similis, sed coloribus minus vividis : capite viridi : 

 uropygio flavicante. 



Spix and Martius, to whom we owe so much for their discoveries 

 in South American ornithology, extended their Brazilian travels high 

 up into the regions of the Upper Amazon. There are consequently 

 many species of animals, described in Spix's great works on Brazilian 

 Zoology, which are more properly East-Peruvian forms, and which, 

 if met with at all within the boundaries of Brazil, are only to be 

 found near to the extreme western limits of the empire. Among such 

 is the present Tanager, which appears to have a tolerably extensive 

 range along the vast wood-region traversed by the head-waters of 

 the numerous confluents of the Amazon. Beginning at the north, it 

 occurs on the upper Rio Napo in the province of Quixos in Ecuador. 

 Next we find it in all collections made in Eastern Peru, where \o\\ 



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