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title nigrocincta. The description however is so short and imperfect, 

 that I was formerly quite at a loss to know to what species to refer 

 it, and, had it not been for the kindness of the noble describer, who 

 pointed out to me a specimen of this CalUste in his own collection as 

 being the same as the individual called by him nigrocincta, I should 

 hardly have ventured to apply that name to the present species. I 

 may remark that I had previously looked through the Derby Collec- 

 tion (where the birds described in the before-mentioned paper are 

 said to have been deposited) without succeeding in finding the type 

 upon which this name was founded. The next earliest notice that 

 we find of this bird is in the 'Annals of Natural History,' from the pen 

 of the late Mr. Strickland, who gives an excellent description of it 

 from a specimen in his own collection, and proposes for it the spe- 

 cific appellation thalassina. A third name, Aglaia wilsoni, was be- 

 stowed upon this bird in 1847 by the Baron de Lafresnaye, founded 

 upon specimens collected by Delattre in the vicinity of Guaunco in 

 Eastern Peru. Under this appellation it has been figured in Des 

 Murs' ' Iconographie Ornithologique,' while Mr. Cassin (who has also 

 given a representation of it in the Report of the United States Naval 

 Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere) has con- 

 founded it with another bird, and erroneously called it CalUste 

 larvata. 



Besides the localities above indicated, the Black-banded Tanager 

 occurs in Bogota collections, and was among the birds received by 

 Mr. Gould from the province of Quixos on the Rio Negro, of which 

 I gave some account in the ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological Society 

 for 1854. Mr. Hauxwell has also transmitted specimens from the 

 river Ucayali, and there are examples in the Vienna Museum pro- 

 cured by Natterer at Marabitanas on the Rio Negro, so that . alto- 

 gether this CalUste has a rather extensive range over the interior of 

 the northern portion of the great valley of the Amazons. 



