• ^'CALLISTE DESMARESTL 



DESMARESrS GREEN TANAGER. 

 PLATE XXVII. 



Taugara rouverdin, femelle, Desm. Taa. pi. 7 (?)• 

 Tanagra gyrola Swains. Zool. 111. n. s. pi. 28. 



Caliiste desmaresti .... Gray, Geu. p. 366. sp. 6. 



Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 67 ; P. Z. S. 1856, 



p. 256. 

 Cassin, Rep. U. S. Astr. Exp. ii. p. 182. pi. 19. 

 fig. '^- 

 AgJaia viridissima .... Lafr, Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 277- 



Gyrola viridissima ....Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 139; Note 

 s 1. Tang. p. 13, 



Caliiste viridissima .... Bp. Consp. p. 234. 



Mas adultus. Clare viiidis : capita toto et mento summo casta- 

 neis : tibiis pallide rufis : rostro nigro-t'usco : pedibus uigri- 

 cantibus : long, tcta 5"0, alse 2*9, caudse 1"8 poll. Angl. 



Fcemina. Mari similis sed miiiiis spleadens. 



While the last preceding bird is the representative of the CaUiste 

 gyrola in the lengthened region lying to the eastward of the great 

 Andean range, the present species seems to supply its place *in that 

 branch of the Andes which extends through the north of Venezuela, 

 and terminates in the island of Trinidad. From the latter locality 

 and from Caraccas many specimens of this Caliiste have been sent 

 to Europe. It is probably the bird given by Desraarest as the sup- 

 posed female of the gyrola. It is certainly the species figured under 

 that name by Mr. Swainson in the second series of his beautiful 

 ' Zoological Illustrations,' and a very accurate representative of it 

 has hkewise been lately published in the ' Report of the United States 

 Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere.' 



As was the case with Caliiste gyroloides, Mr. Gray and M. de 

 Lafresnaye gave separate names to the present bird about the same 



