CALLISTE YENI. 



THE EED-BACKED PARADISE TANAGER. 



PLATE II. 



Aglaia cbilensis Viff. P. Z. S. 1832, p. 3. 



Jard. et Selb. 111. Orn. n. s. pi. 25. 



Aglaia veni Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. Av. in Mag. de Zool. 1837, 



p.31. 



Tanagra yeni d'Orb. Voy. p. 270. pi. 24. fig. 2. 



Callospiza yeni Tsch. Wiegm. Arch. 1844, p. 286. 



Tsch. F. P. p. 201 . 



Calliste chilensis .... Gray, Gen. p, 366. sp. 14. 



Calliste yeni Bp. Consp. p. 234. 



Sclater, Cont. Om. 1851, p. 51 ; Tan. Cat. Sp. p. 1 1 . 

 sp. 2. 



Tatao yeni Bj9. R. Z. 1851, p. 141 ; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 15. 



Mas adultus. Supra velutino-ater : dorso postico toto ruberrimo : 

 pilei et capitis laterum pennis coarctatis et squamatis, colore 

 Isetissime viridibus : oculorum ambitu auguste nigro : tectri- 

 cibus alarum summis et corpora subtus splendide cseruleis ; 

 gutture et tectricum alarum mediarum et remigum externa- 

 rum marginibus purpureis : ventre medio et crisso nigris : 

 long, tota 5*2, alse 2*9, caudse 2*2 poll. Angl. 



The well-known ornithologist, Mr. Vigors, first described the Red- 

 backed Paradise Tanager before the Zoological Society in 1832, and 

 called it ' chilensis,'' supposing it to be a native of the republic of 

 Chili. But, now that we have become better acquainted with the 

 ornithology of South America, we are well aware that the true tana- 

 grine form is not found on the western slope of the Andean range 

 nearly so far south as that country ; and we cannot therefore use the 

 name 'chilensis' for a bird, which, as M. d'Orbigny remarks, does 

 not occur within 100 leagues of that republic, and only on the oppo- 

 site side of the Andes. 



M. d'Orbigny met with this species in the hot humid forests of 

 the Yungas and Yuracares Indians in Bolivia. He says that, like all 

 the true Tanagers, it keeps to the summit of the large trees and 



