CALLISTE TATAO. 



THE PARADISE TANAGER. 

 PLATE I. Fig. 1. 



Tangara du Bresil .... Buff. PI. Enl. 12/. %. 1. 



Tangara Buff. PI. Enl. 7. fig- 1 (fig- pess.). 



Briss. Orn. iii. p. 3. 



Le Septicolor Buff. H. N. iv. 278. 



Tanagra tatao Unn. S. N. i. 315— Gm. S. N. i. 893. 



Lath. Ind. Ora. i. 428. 

 Kittl. Kupf. d. Vog. pi. 31. fig. 3. 

 Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 778. 

 Hayes, Osterly Park, p. 32. 

 t^'Ori. Voy. p.270? 



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



p. 32? 



Aglaia paradisea Sw. Class. Birds, ii. p. 286. 



Callispiza tatao Schomb. Reise, iii. p. 669. 



Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 26. 



Tatao paradisea Bp. Note s. 1. Tang. p. 15; Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 141. 



CaUiste tatao Gray, Gen. B. p. 366. sp. 13. 



Bp. Consp. p. 234. sp. 13. 



Sclater, Cont. Orn. 1851, p. 50j Tan. Cat. Sp. 

 p. 11. sp. 1. 



Tangara septicolor. . . . Desm. Tan. pi. 1. 



The Paradise Tanager, Lath. G. H. vi. p. 27. 



Titmouse of Paradise, Edwards, Glean, t. 349. 



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

 coccinea, inferiore aurea : pilei summi et capitis laterum 

 pennis coarctatis et squamatis, colore Isetissime vii'idibus : 

 fronte et oculorum ambitu anguste nigris : tectricibus alarum 

 summis et corpore subtus splendide cseruleis ; gutture et pec- 

 tore summo cum tectricibus alarum mediis et marginibus 

 remigum externarum purpureis : ventre medio crissoque atris : 

 long, tota 4*7, alse 2*7, caudse 2*0 poll. Angl. 



Mas junior et fcemina. Mari similis, sed coloribus minus vividis; 

 dorso postico omnino aureo. 



The "Paradise Tanager" was well known to Brisson and Buffon, 

 like many other of the birds of Cayenne, some of which have not 



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