^ CALLISTE CUCULLATA. 



THE CHESTNUT-CAPPED TANAGER. 



PLATE XX. 



Aglaia cucuUata Swains. Orn. Dr. pi. 7- 



Calliste cucullata Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 9. 



Bp. Consp. p. 234 ; Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, 



p. 140; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 14. 

 Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 63; P.Z. S. 1856, 



p. 253. 

 Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. d. Th. Bras. pt. iii. p. 183. 



Mas adultus. Supra flavescenti-ochraceus viridescente mixtus : 

 pileo nigricaute cinnamomeo-brunneo : infra rufescerilte tinctus, 

 pectore cserulescente : alis caudaque nigris viridi limbatis : 

 crisso rufescenti-brunneo : rostro validiusculo plumbeo ; pedi- 

 bus nigricantibus : long, tota 5*0, alse I'Q, caudse 1"7 poll. 

 Angl. 



Foemina. Mari similis sed coloribus obscurioribus et viridescen- 

 tioribus. 



While many travellers and naturalists have visited the Amazon 

 of late years and penetrated far up into the interior provinces of Peru 

 and Ecuador, no one, as far as I am aware, since the times of Hum- 

 boldt and Bonplandj has attempted to explore the Orinoco. And 

 yet this mighty stream, with its mouths just opposite to the flourish- 

 ing British island of Trinidad, would appear to form a highway sin- 

 gularly convenient for any one who wished to find ready access to 

 one of the most interesting parts of the interior of the South Ame- 

 rican continent. For the natural history of the region adjacent to 

 this great river is by no means well explored, and there are doubtless 

 many discoveries to be made among the plants and animals of this 

 interesting district. The present rare species of Tanager, first 

 figured by Swainson as a bird of Brazil, is, I have good reason to 

 believe, an inhabitant of this country, the examples in the Paris and 

 Leyden Museums being marked " Santo Thomas," the old name for 



