V CALLISTE XANTHOGASTRA. 



THE YELLOW-BELLIED SPOTTED TANAGEE. 



PLATE XL 



Calliste xanthogastra . . Sclater, Cont. Orn. 1851, p. 23 et 55; Tan. Cat, 

 Sp. p. 11. sp. 16; P. Z.S.I 854, p. 115, et 1865, 

 p. 157 ; List of Bog. B. p. 29. 



Ixothraupis chrysogaster, JBp. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 144; Note s. 1. Tang. 

 p. 18. 



Mas adultus. Lsete viridis : capitis et corporis inferi ad medium 

 pectus penuis medialiter iiigris, viridi late circumcinctis : in- 

 terscapuliij alarum et caudse plumis nigris, cserulescenti- viridi 

 late marginatis : ventre medio flavo : lateribus viridibus : 

 tectricibus subalaribus albis : rostro et pedibus nigris : long. 

 tota4*2, alse 2*5, caudse 1*5 poll, Angl. 



This Tanager seems to be the representative of the homochroous 

 group to vphich it belongs on the southern and eastern slope of the 

 Andes of New Grenada, Ecuador and Peru. Although specimens 

 have lately been transmitted in collections from Bogota, I think it 

 probable that these v^ere obtained on the south side of the vs^atershed 

 which divides the Magdalena from the upper branches of the Amazon, 

 while the Calliste guttata represents it in the valleys on the northern 

 side. 



I distinguished this species from its affines and described it under 

 its present name in the first number of Sir William Jardine's Con- 

 tributions to Ornithology for 1851, published in the beginning of 

 that year. Prince Bonaparte called the bird chrysogastra nearly 

 about the same time, but I believe my name has a slight precedence 

 in point of publication. 



Besides its occurrence in Bogota collections, as already noticed, 

 examples of this Tanager formed a part of the small but interesting 

 series of birds received by Mr. Gould from the province of Quixos in 

 Ecuador, of which I gave a list in the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society for 1854. I may mention, that I have since found reason to 



