CALLISTE RUFIGENIS. 



THE RUFOUS-CHEEKED TANAGER. 



PLATE XL. 



Calliste rufigenis Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 311. 



Mas adultus. Cserulescenti-viridis, interscapullo obscuriore : 

 loris, capitis lateribus et regione auriculari cum mento summo 

 rufis : alarum remigibus fusco-nigris, cuprescenti-viridi lim- 

 batis : Cauda fusco-nigra virescente marginata : subtus vires- 

 centior quam supra; abdomine medio, tibiis et tectricibus 

 subalaribus albescenti-ochraceis : crisso rufescenti-ochraceo : 

 rostro et pedibus nigris : long, tota 5*0, alee 2*7, caudse \'7 

 poll. Angl. 



My friends MM. Jules and Edouard Verreaux, of Paris, kindly 

 transmitted to me two specimens of this species last summer, just 

 after I had completed the Synopsis of Tanagers, published in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society for the past year. To both 

 of those gentlemen I am greatly indebted for numerous acts of kind- 

 ness, and to M. Jules Verreaux (who has turned his attention par- 

 ticularly towards Ornithology, and is as well acquainted with that 

 subject as, perhaps, any Naturalist living), for a large quantity of 

 valuable information concerning the present and other groups of birds 

 to which T have at times directed my attention. 



The Rufous-cheeked Tanager is rather noticeable for showing much 

 less-decided tints of colouring than is usual in birds of this group. 

 It is, 1 think, most naturally placed in the present section, next to 

 Calliste labradorides, but is readily distinguishable from that species 

 and its congeners by the rufous ear-coverts and the want of black 

 colouring on the back. 



The MM. Verreaux received their specimens of this bird from 

 Venezuela, but without any accompanying information. I am, how- 

 ever, not at all surprised at the vast delta of the Orinoco and enormous 

 woodlands traversed by that noble stream and its numerous branches 



