CALLISTE NIGRIVIRIDIS. 



THE NEWGEENADIAN BLUE-AND-BLACK TANAGER. 



Tanagra nigroviridis . . Lafr. R. Z. 1843, p. 69; Mag. de Zool. 1843, 

 pi. 43. 



Calliste nigroviridis . . Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 23. 

 Bp. Consp. p. 235. 



Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 56; P. Z. S. 1855, 

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

 p. 260; Syn. Av. Tan. p. 86. 



Callispiza nigroviridis. . Cab. Hus. Hein. p. 27. 



T. (Aglaia) nigroviridis. Less. Descr. p. 348. 



Chalcothraupis nigroviridis, Bp. Rev. et Mag.de Zool. 1851, p. 145; Note 

 s. 1. Tang. p. 19. 



Mas adultus. Niger : pileo, cervice et dorse postico cum corpore 

 toto subtiis argentescenti-viridi-cyaneis, plumis subtus nigris, 

 hoc colore terminatis : fronte, loris, regione oculari et mento 

 nigris : abdomine medio albicaiite : remigibus rectricibusque 

 nigris cyaneo marginatis : tectricibus alarum minoribus intense 

 eyaneis : majoribus autem argentescenti-cyaneo marginatis : 

 rostro nigro, mandibulse inferioris basi albida : pedibus fusco- 

 nigris : long, tota 5'0, alse 2*9, caudse 1"8 poll. Angl. 



Fcemina. Vix a mari diversa. 



This is amongst the most abundant species vphich are commonly 

 brought to England in Bogota collections, and was accordingly noticed 

 and named by the Baron F. de la Lafresnaye, in one of his earliest 

 communications to the 'Revue Zoologique' upon the Ornithology of 

 that country. 



When I first saw a copy of Holton's * New Grenada,' published 

 at New York in the end of the year 1856, I turned eagerly over its 

 pages, hoping that I should find some such information as I had long 

 desired concerning the trade in birdskins from Bogota, and from what 

 part of the country they were principally procured. But to my great 

 disappointment I found not a word upon the subject, although the 

 writer is Professor of Natural History in Middlebury College in the 

 State of Vermont ; and, as it appears, went out to New Grenada upon 



