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is more common on the coast than in the interior, and is met with in 

 the outskirts of the woods and plantations singly and in pairs. 



Except from these locaUties I have never met with specimens of 

 this bird. In Venezuela it is replaced by the Calliste desmaresti, 

 and along the line of the Andes by the next following species. 

 Mr. Swainson, having first figured the Venezuelan bird as the true 

 gyrola, proposed in the second part of ' Animals in Menageries,' to 

 call this Calliste by another name, but, as there is no do\ibt about 

 this being the true gyrola of the older authors, I do not think we 

 ought to consent to this, although to Mr. Swainson is due the credit 

 of first pointing out the distinction between these three closely-allied 

 species. 



