^ CALLISTE GRAMINEA. 



THE SMALL SPOTTED TANAGER. 



PLATE XL 



Tang, tachete de Cayenne, Buff. PL Enl. 301. fig. 1. 



Le Syacon Buff, H. N. iv. p. 288 (partim). 



Tangara petit Syacou. . Less. Trait. d'Om. p. 462. 



Tanagra graminea .... Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 40. pi. 53. fig. 2 ( ? ). 



CaUiste virescens .... Sclater, Cont. Om. 1851, p. 22. pi. 69. fig. 1, et 

 p. 56. 



Lxothraupis pusilla, . . . Bp. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 144 ; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 18. 



Calliste graminea .... Sclater, Tan. Cat. Sp. p. 11 . sp. 17- 



Mas adultus. Viridis : alis caudaque nigris ; harum marginibus 

 externis cum interscapulio toto cserulescentibus : ventre me- 

 dio vix flavescente : long, tota 3*9, alse 2*3, caudse 1*5 poll. 

 Angl. 



Fcemina. Viridis fere unicolor : alis caudaque fusco-nigris, viridi 

 limbatis ; ventre flavescente. 



Buffon's "Tang. tachetS de Cayenne" figured in PI. Enl. 301. 

 fig. 1, is, I think, clearly intended for the present bird, although he 

 himself, in his " Histoire Naturelle," and nearly all subsequent au- 

 thors, have referred that illustration to the C. punctata. I also con- 

 sider Spix's Tanagra graminea to be referable to the female of this 

 species, and therefore adopt that name as its first-given specific title. 

 I had once hoped to have settled this question satisfactorily by 

 examining the type of Spix's figure, which vpas supposed to be in 

 the Museum at Munich ; but though I had the pleasure of seeing 

 several of the types of the more obscure species figured in Spix's work, 

 when on a visit to that capital in 1852, I was unsuccessful in finding 

 the Tanagra graminea. 



The greater part of the specimens of this Tanager which have come 

 under my notice have been from Cayenne, although I possess one 

 example, received from MM. Verreaux of Paris, marked " Brazil ;" 

 and it probably extends down to the banks of the Amazon, where I 



