/ CALLISTE CAYANA. 



THE LESSER RUFOUS-HEADED TANAGER. 



PLATE XIX. 



Tangara cayanensis viridis, Briss. Om. iii. p. 21. 



Moineau a tete rousse de Cayenne, Buff, PI. Enl, 201. fig. 1 (fig. pess.). 



Tangara a tete rousse de Cayenne, Buff. PI. Enl. 290. fig. 1. 



Le Passevert Buff. H. N. iv. 2/3. 



Desm. H. N. de Tang. pi. 10 & 11. 



Tanagra cavana Linn. S. N. i. p. 315. 



Gm. S. N. i. p. 892. 



Lath. Ind. Om. i. p. 427. 



Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 777- 



Fringilla autumnalis . . Linn. S. N. i. p. 320 ? 



Calliste cayana Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 7- 



Bp. Consp. p. 234. sp. 1; Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 



1851, p. 340; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 14. 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 252. 



Calospiza cayana .... Schomb. Reise, iii. p. 670. 



Callispiza cayana .... Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 27. 



Calliste chrysonota. . . . ScZafer,Contr.Orn.l850, p.50.pl.51,etl851, p.62. 



Rufous-headed Tanager, Lath. G. H. vi. p. 30. 



Mas adultus. Flavescenti-ochraceus, pileo cuprescenti-rufo : capi- 

 tis iateribus nigris : alis nigris cserulescenti-viridi limbatis : 

 gutture nigricanti-cseruleo perfuso : rostro pedibusque nigris : 

 long, tota 4'8, alse 2'7j caudse 1*5 poll. Angl. 



Foemina. Coloribus obscurioribus et virescente niixtis : margini- 

 bus alarum viridescentibus. 



As I have already stated in my account of the previous species, I 

 formerly considered that to be the true Tanagra cayana of the older 

 authors, and accordingly fell into the error of considering the present 

 bird as undescribed, and applied to it the new appellation chrysonota. 

 But I was afterwards fully convinced of my mistake. 



This Tanager appears to be very common in British and French 

 Guiana. In the latter country BufFon says that they live in the 



