vCALLISTE CCELICOLOR. 



THE NEW GRENADIAN PARADISE TANAGEK. 



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PLATE I. Fig. 2. 



Calliste ccelicolor .... Sclater, Cont. Orn. 1851, p. 51 ; Tan. Cat. Sp. p. 11 . 

 sp. 3 ; P. Z. S. 1855, p. 157 ; List of Bog. B. p. 29. 



Mas adultus. Supra velutino-ater : dorsi postici parte superiore 

 coccinea, inferiore aurea : piiei usque ad nucham et capitis 

 laterum pennis coarctatis et squamatis, colore Isetissime viri- 

 dibus : fronte angustissima et oculorum ambitu nigris : tec- 

 tricibus alarum summis et corpore subtus splendide cseruleis : 

 gutture cum tectricum alarum mediarum et remigum exter- 

 narum marginibus purpureis : ventre medio et crisso atris : 

 long, tota 5"0, alee 3'1, caudee 2*1 poll. Angl. 



Mas junior et foemina. Mari similis, sed coloribus obscurioribus et 

 dorso postico omnino flavo. 



Quite a new country was opened to European naturalists when 

 collections began to be made in the mountain valleys of New 

 Grenada. It is now nearly twenty years since birdskins were first 

 transmitted to Paris from Bogota, the capital of that republic. 

 Since then frequent importations of objects of natural history as arti- 

 cles of merchandize have been made both into England and France 

 from the same quarter. 



The zoology of this country, thus revealed to lis, was found, as 

 might naturally have been expected, to be wholly distinct from that 

 of the eastern coasts of South America, with which we were so fami- 

 liar, and a large number of new Mammals, Birds, Insects and other 

 animals were thus added to our catalogues. The Bird-fauna of these 

 regions appears to be particularly prolific, not only abounding in 

 new species, but also embracing novel forms not met with in other 

 parts of the South American continent. Last year I enumerated in 

 a paper read before the Zoological Society of London no less than 

 435 species of birds which occur in collections of what are commonly 

 called '^o^o^a' skins. Since that time many others have come 

 under my notice, and I have little doubt that their numbers will 

 eventually be very materially increased. 



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