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supposing his name to have been first published. But I have lately 

 ascertained that the sheets of Dr. Cabanis' " Museum Heineanum," 

 comprising the Tanagers, were in the hands of many of his friends as 

 early as October 1850, although the first part of that vrork was not 

 issued to the public until the following year. I now therefore think 

 it fair that his names for this and other species should take prece- 

 dence over those pubhshed by Prince Bonaparte and myself in the 

 beginning of the year 1851, and accordingly use the specific term 

 guttata for this hird. 



This Tanager is the most extensively distributed species of the 

 little group to which it belongs. Schomhurgk's examples were ob- 

 tained in the Roraima mountains in British Guiana. I have already 

 mentioned its occurrence in Trinidad ; and the neighbouring land of 

 Venezuela is also tenanted by it, Mr. Dyson having procured it near 

 Caraccas, and M. Levraud, the French consul in that city, having 

 also lately transmitted fine specimens of it to the Jardin des Plantes 

 at Paris. In Bogota collections it is pretty abundant, and, although 

 the examples from this quarter are not quite so brightly coloured as 

 those from the low lands, I cannot but regard the bird as essentially 

 the same. And, finally, M. Bourcier brought with him on his re- 

 turn from Ecuador a single example of this species, obtained in the 

 tropical valley of Mindos to the north-west of Quito. This specimen, 

 now in the Paris Museum, is the type of Prince Bonaparte's Calliste 

 guttulata, and seems in every way to agree with ordinary examples, 

 although, hefore I had examined it, the inaccuracy of Prince Bona- 

 parte's description had occasioned me some doubts on this point. 



