/ CALLISTE PULCHRA. 



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TSCHUDFS GOLDEN TANAGER. 



PLATE XV. 



Calospiza pulchra .... Tschudi, inWie»m. Arch.x. pt. L p. 285 ; Faun. Per. 

 p. 200. pi. 18.^%. 2. 



Calliste pulchra Gray, Gen. App. p. 17. 



Bp. Consp. p. 235. sp. 32. 



Lafr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 206. 



Sctoer, P. Z.S. 1856, p. 251. 



Mas adultus. Aureo-flavus, interscapulio limonaceo-flavo et nigro 

 variegato : fronte angusta, mento summo, loris et regione 

 auricular! cum alls caudiique nigerrimis : alarum tectricibus 

 et secundariis viridescenti-aureo anguste limbatis : gutture et 

 cervice autica castaneo-aureis : rostro et pedibus nigris : long, 

 tota 5*75, alse 3"3, caudse 2'4 poll. Angl. 



Fcemina. Mari similis. 



Dr. J. J. Von Tschudi, the well-known traveller and naturalist, was 

 the discoverer of this beautiful species of the present section of Golden 

 Tanagers. Its specific characters are given along with those of the 

 other birds met with by him in Peru in the " Conspectus Avium," 

 which appeared in Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte in 1844, 

 and some further details and a figure are published in the ' Fauna 

 Peruana.' It is to be regretted that Von Tschudi was not a little 

 more precise as to the exact localities in which he obtained the va- 

 rious birds which he collected. Of all the species of Calliste which 

 he met with, including the present, we are only told that they occur 

 in the eastern wood-region of Peru, in the provinces bordering on 

 Brazil, and are to be found on the highest trees. 



It was not until I had seen the type-specimens of this Tanager, 

 which, along with the other animals collected by Von Tschudi, are 

 now in the collection of the Gymnasium at Neufchatel, that I dis- 

 covered its entire distinctness from Calliste aurulenta. In my 

 Synopsis of Callistee given in the ' Contributions to Ornithology,' 



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