CALLISTE FRANCESCO. 



Mrs. WILSON^S TANAGER. 



Aglaia fanny Lafr. R. Z. 1847, p. 72. 



Calliste fanny Gray, Gen. App. p. 17- 



Bp. Consp. p. 236. 



Des Murs, Icon. Orn. pi. 56. fig. 1. 



Calliste francescse .... Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, pp. 142 et 261 ; Syn. Av. 

 Tan. p. 87- 



Mas adultus. Capite colloque toto cum gula nitidissime virescenti- 

 aureis : rostri ambitu nigro, deinde cseruleo et in viridem 

 transeunte : interscapulio alls caudaque cum pectore toto ni- 

 gerrimis : dorso postico et tectricibus alarum mediis virides- 

 centi-cyaueis : remigibus et rectricibus eodem colore anguste 

 limbatis : tectricibus alarum summis cseruleis : abdomine 

 medio crissoque albis, lateribus viridescenti-cseruleis : rostro 

 et pedibus nigris : long, tota 5"0, alse 2*8, caudee 1*6 poll. 

 Angl. 



Mr. Thomas Bridges, a corresponding Member of the Zoological 

 Society of London, and well known for his extensive researches in 

 Natural History in various parts of the New World, passed some 

 time at the beginning of the year 1856 at the town of David, which 

 lies some 25 miles from the Pacific coast of the province of Chiriqui, 

 near the boundary line between the republics of New Grenada and 

 Nicaragua. During his residence at this place, Mr. Bridges formed 

 a small but interesting collection of Mammals and Birds, of which I 

 have given an account in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society 

 for 1856 (p. 138, et seq.). 



One of the most beautiful birds in his collection was certainly a 

 specimen of the present Tanager which at first I took to be a brightly 

 coloured example of the Calliste larvata. For, the latter bird oc- 

 curring in Central America, I was not surprised to find its range ex- 

 tending as far southwards as the Isthmus of Panama. But an accu- 

 rate comparison of specimens Qi\)a^ Calliste larvata with Mr, Bridges' 

 example showed differences which seemed hardly reconcileable with 



