^CALLISTE CYANOPTERA. 



THE BLUE-WINGED TANAGER. 



PLATE XXIV. 



Aglaia cyanoptera .... Sw. Orn. Dr. pi. 8. 



Tanagra argentea , . . . Lafr. Rev. Zool, 1843, p. 69. 



Calliste cyanoptera. . . . Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 10. 



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



p. 140 ; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 15. 

 Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 64; Tan. Cat. Sp. 

 p. 12; P. Z. S. 1856, p. 254. 



Mas adultus. Argentescenti- ochraceus, viridi micans : capita un- 

 dique cum gutture alis et cauda nigris : harum marginibus 

 angustis clare cseruleis : rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 

 5 "5, alse 3'0, caudse 2*0 poll. Angl. 



Fcemina aut avis junior. Viridescens : uropygio et ventre flaves- 

 centioribus, capite obscuriore, gutture albidiore : alis caudaque 

 nigris viridi limbatis. 



Mr. Swainson's beautiful ' Ornithological Drawings,' sometimes 

 cited as his ' Birds of Brazil,' first made us acquainted vi^ith this 

 Tanager, which is certainly one of the most finely coloured birds of 

 the whole group. It is not, however, I believe, an inhabitant of any 

 part of the large Brazilian Empire, but of the Republic of Venezuela. 

 All the specimens of it which have come under my notice have been 

 received from Caraccas ; that is to say, such has been the case in 

 every instance in which I have been able to trace the locality. 

 M. Levraud's collection from Caraccas, transmitted to the Jardin 

 des Plantes at Paris, of which I have already made mention, con- 

 tained examples of it, and, if I mistake not, Mr. Dyson also pro- 

 cured specimens in the same neighbourhood. 



The Baron de Lafresnaye described this Tanager under the name 

 of T. argentea in the ' Revue Zoologique' for 1843, along with other 

 species from Bogota, but I have never noticed its occurrence in col- 

 lections from New Grenada. 



