^CALLISTE RUFICERVIX, 



THE RED-NAPED TANAGER. 



PLATE XXXII. 



Aglaia ruficervix F. Prev. Voy. Venus, Ois. pi. 5, fig. 1. 



Arremoii(!) rufivertex(!)Grffy, Gen. p. 361, sp. 3, 



Procnopis atro-eoerulea et Tan. ruficervix, Bp. Compt. Rend. Ac. Sc. Par. 



xxxii. p. 77- 

 Chalcothraupis ruficervix, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 144 ; Note 



s. 1. Tang. p. 18. 



Calliste leucotis Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 58. 



Calliste ruficervix Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 58 ; P. Z. S. 1855, 



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

 p. 259 ; Syn. Av. Tan. p. 85. 



Mas adultus. Viridescenti-cserulescens : dorsi plumis medialiter 

 et intus nigris : alis caudaque nigris viridescenti-CEeruleo lim- 

 batis : pileo et cervice postica purpureis, vitti latd transnu- 

 chali auresceuti-rufa : fronte, mento et loris nigris : ventre 

 medio crissoque cum tibiis ochraceis : rostro et pedibus nigris : 

 long, tota 4*5, alee 2'8, caudse 1*7 poll. Angl. 



Foemina. Vix a mari diversa. 



There have been some rather curious mistakes made about the no- 

 menclature of this bird, such mistakes as, I regret to say, the writers 

 on Natural History of the present day not unfrequently fall into, 

 although they have not the excuses of the older authors, who could 

 plead the newness of their subject — the extreme scarcity of specimens 

 — and the general want of accurate pictorial representations of objects 

 of Natural History. The red-naped Tanager was first made known 

 by a figure of it given in the Natural-History-Atlas of the ' Voyage 

 of the Venus,' which, although not so perfect as it might have been, 

 is quite sufficiently accurate to render the species easily recognizable, 

 and to show that it is in every way distinct from the brilliant bird 

 commonly known as Iridornis dubusia. Yet M. de Lafresnaye, 

 when he first described the latter species, referred it without hesitation 

 to the bird figured in the ' Voyage of the Venus,' and moreover com- 



