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vCALLISTE FLAVA. 



THE YELLOW TANAGER. 



PLATE XXI. Fig. Id', 2$. 



Tangara Brasiliensis flava, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 39. 



Tanagra flava Gm. S. N. i. p. 896. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 431. 

 BIcuc. Beitr. iii. p. 467. 



Liado bello Azara, Pax. i. p. 387. 



Tanagra formosa Vieill. N. D. d'H. N. xxxii. p. 407; Enc. Meth. 



p. 773. 



Tanagra chloroptera Vieill. N. D. d'H. N. xxxii. p. 407. 



Aglaia flava Swains. Zool. 111. n. s. pi. 31. 



Calliste flava Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 15. 



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



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

 Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 61 ; Tan. Cat. Sp. 



p. 11; P. Z. S. 1856, p. 253. 

 Burm. Syst. Ueb. d. Th. Bras. iii. p. 181. 



Callispiza flava , Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 27. 



Yellow Tanager Lath. G. H. p. 22. 



Mas adultus. Clare ochraceo-flavus : alis caudaque nigris viridi 

 limbatis ; corpore subtus a men to ad ventrem medialiter 

 nigro : rostro pedibusque nigris : long, tola 5*8, alse 2*9, 

 caudae 2'0 poll. Angl. 



Foemina et avis junior. Ochraceo-flava, supra viridi mixta : alis 

 caudaque nigris viridi limbatis : subtiis medialiter albidior, 

 ventris lateribus et crisso ochracescentibus. 



Prince Maximilian of Neuwied, who gives excellent descriptions of 

 both sexes of this Tanager in his ' Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte 

 von Brasilien,' first met with it on the river Mucuri in the province 

 of Porto Seguro. There, he says, it was not uncommon in the sandy 

 bush bordering the sea-shore, and he also noticed its occurrence in 

 many other places. Like most of the other Tanagers it has no song, 

 but only a short call-cry. 



Azara inserts it in his " Apuntamientos " under the name of 

 " Lindo bello,'" but never met with it himself alive in Paraguay, the 

 specimen described having been purchased dead. 



