CALLISTE LABRADORIDES. 



THE METALLIC -GEEEN TANAGER. 



PLATE XXXIX. 



Tanagra (Aglaia) labradorides . . Boiss. R. Z. 1840, p. 6/. 



Less. Descr. d. Mamm. et Ois. p. 347. 

 Aglaia labradorides F. Prevost, Voy. Venus, Ois. pi. 5. fig. 2. 



Calliste labradorides G'ray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 25. 



Bp. Consp. p. 235. 



Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 57 ; P. Z. S. 



1855, p. 158, et 1856, p. 262; Syn. 



Av. Tan. p. 88. 



Mas adultus. Nitenti-viridis cseruleo vix tinctus, capite aures- 

 centiore : fronte, loris, mento summo, nucha et cervice pos- 

 tica cum scapularibus omnino nigris : alls caudaque nigris 

 cserulescenti-viridi marginatis : tectricibus alarum summis 

 cseruleis : ventre imo et crisso pallide ochraceis : rostro nigro, 

 pedibus brunneis : long, tota 4*5, alse 2*6, caudse 1*7 poll. 

 Angl. 



Foemina. Mari similis. 



Ornithologists, and, I believe I may venture to say, Naturalists in 

 general of the present generation, are not always very particular as 

 to the pure Latinity of the names used as specific appellations for the 

 objects described by them, or as to their meaning being immediately 

 obvious to the uninitiated. It would puzzle ffidipus himself to guess 

 at the derivation of some of the terms applied to members of the 

 animated creation, and the name of the present Tanager is, I think, 

 by no means one of the least obscure in its interpretation : I confess _ 

 I was totally at a loss to conceive what was the meaning of calling 

 this bird labradorides, until I was informed by an eminent French 

 Ornithologist that it was intended to signify that it shone like 

 Labrador spar ! 



This Calliste is one of the commonest species of the genus in Bo- 

 gota collections, and was amongst the first importations brought to 



