CALLISTE BOLIVIANA. 



THE BOLIVIAN TURQUOISE TANAGER. 



PLATE XXX. ' 



Aglaia mexicana Lafr. et d'Orb. Syn. Av. in Mag. de Zool. 1837, 



p. 32. 



Tanagra flaviventris . . d'Orb. Voy. p. 270. 



Calospiza boliviaaa. . . . Bp. Compt. Rend. Ac. Sc. Par. xxxii. p. 80 ; Rev. 

 et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 169 ; Note s. 1. Tang. 

 p. 20. 



Calliste boliviana .... Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 69 ; P. Z. S. 1855, 

 p. 158; List of Bog. B. p. 30; P. Z. S. 1856, 

 p. 258 ; Syn. Av. Tan. p. 84. 



Mas adultus. Niger : capita aiitico et laterali cum gutture, pectore 

 et lateribus necnon dorso postico et tectricibus alarum mino- 

 ribus cum marginibus tectricum majorum cseruleis : rostri 

 arabitu, torque gutturali interrupto, et maculis in lateribus 

 pectoris et ventris nigris : remigum margine externa anguste 

 cyanescente : abdomine medio crissoque cum tectricibus suba- 

 laribus flavissimis : rostro pedibusque nigerrimis : long, tota 

 5"0, alse 2*75, caudse 1*9 poll. Angl. 



Fcemina. A mari vix diver sa. 



The Bolivian Turquoise Tanager represents its affines of Cayenne 

 and Brazil, CalUstce flaviventris and brasiliensis, along the subandean 

 districts of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Nevr Grenada, in the same 

 way that Calliste guttata replaces C. 'punctata, and C. gyroloides 

 C. gyrola, in these localities. The ornithology of Tropical America 

 offers many similar interesting examples of the diflFusion of corre- 

 sponding ornithic species over different geographic arese, w^hich, when 

 they are all fully worked out, will no doubt afford us great assistance 

 in dividing out the Neotropical or great southern zoological kingdom 

 of the New World into its constituent provinces. 



This Calliste appears to have been first noticed by d'Orbigny, who 

 found it in the territories of the Guarayos and Yurucares Indians iu 



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