/CALLISTE LARVATA. 



THE MASKED TANAGER. 



PLATE XXXVI. 



Calliste larvata DuBus, Esquisses Orn. pi. 9. 



Gray, Gen. App. p. 17. 

 Bp. Coasp. p. 236. 



Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 64; P. Z. S. 1856, 

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



Tatao larvatus Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 42 ; Note 



s. 1. Tang. p. 16. 



Mas adultus. Capite coUoque toto cum gula nitidissime cupres- 

 centi-aureis : rostri ambitu nigro : vitta ultra frontem et ca- 

 pitis lateribus cseruleis, hujus coloris margine posteriore in vi- 

 ridescentem transeunte : interscapulio, alis caudaque cum 

 pectore toto nigris : tectricibus alarum minoribus ceeruleis, 

 mediarum autem et majorum marginibus cum dorso postico 

 cyaneis : remigibus et rectricibus aurescenti-viridi limbatis : 

 abdomine medio albo, utrinqne cseruleo, lateribus viridescen- 

 tibus : rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 5*0, alse 2 "9, caudse 

 1-8 poll. Angl. 



Fcemina. Mari similis sed coloribus paulb dilutioribus. 



This beautiful Tanager was discovered by M. Auguste Gbiesbreght 

 in the State of Tabasco in Southern Mexico ; the most northern 

 locality hitherto recorded for any species of the genus Calliste. The 

 examples collected by M. Ghiesbreght were transmitted to the Museum 

 at Brussels in 1841, and were first brought to the notice of Natural- 

 ists in 1846 by the Vicomte DuBus di Gisignies, who gave an ac- 

 curate illustration of the bird in the second number of his ' Esquisses 

 Ornithologiques.' 



It is very noticeable that nearly every pure Neotropical or Tropical 

 American genus seems to have a single or occasionally two represent- 

 atives in Central America or Southern Mexico, north of the Isthmus 

 of Panama ; thus Galbula, with numerous species in the southern 

 continent, is here represented by G. melanogenia, Biglossa by 



