CALLISTE GYROLA. 



BUFFON^S GREEN TANAGER. 



PLATE XXV. 



Tangai'a peruviana viridis, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 23. 



Tangara du Perou .... Buff. PI. Enl. 133. fig. 2. 



Le Rouverdin Buff. H. N. iv. 286. 



Tangara rouverdin, male, Desm. Tan. pi. 6. 



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



Gm. S. N. i. p. 891. 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 42?. 

 Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 778. 



Aglaia clir}soptera .... Swains. An. in Men. p, 356. 



Calliste gyrola Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 5. 



Bp. Consp. p. 234. 



Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 67 ; Tan. Cat. Sp. 

 p. 12; P. Z. S. 1856, p. 255. 



Callospiza gyrola .... Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 670. 



Callispiza gyrola Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 28. 



Gja-ola chrysoptera Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 139 ; Note s. 1. 



Tang. p. 13. 



Red-headed Greenfinch, Edwards, Glean, pi. 23. 



Red-headed Tangger . . Lath. G. H. vi. 15. 



Mas adultiis. Clare viridis : capite et mento summo castaneis : 

 campterio auresceute : abdomine medio caerulescente : tibiis 

 pallide rufis : rostro et pedibus fuscis : long, tota 4*5, alfe 

 2" 7, caudse 1*8 poll. Angl, 



Foemina. Mari similis sed minus splendens et ventre minus ceeru- 

 lescente. 



The older wiiters on Natural History vv^ere well acquainted with 

 this Tauager, which is not uncommon in Cayenne and British 

 Guiana. In the former region they tell us that it appears two or 

 three times in the year and frequents certain trees, upon the fruit of 

 which it feeds. Richard Schomburgk informs us in his ' Versuch 

 einer Flora und Fauna von Br itisch- Guiana,' that in that country it 



