CALLISTE CHRYSOTIS. 



THE GOLDEN-EARED TANAGER. 



PLATE XLIIL 



Calliste chrysotis .... DuBus, Esquisses Orn. pi. 7- 

 Gray, Gen. App. p. 17- 

 Bp. Consp. p. 236. 



Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 66; P. Z. S. 1856, 

 p. 263 ; Syn. Av. Tan. p. 89. 



Chrysothraupis chrysotis, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 142; Note 

 s. 1. Tang. p. 17- 



Mas adultus. Supra niger : dorso postico et interscapulii alarum- 

 que pennarum omnium margiuibus clare viridibus : pileo nigro : 

 fronte aurescenti-viridi : regione auriculari cuprescenti-aureo : 

 subtiis clare viridis : abdomine medio crissoque castaneis : rostro 

 et pedibus nigris : long, tota 5*5, alse 2*9, caudse 1*9 poll. Angl. 



The second number of the Vicomte DuBus' beautiful but too iittle- 

 known work entitled ' Esquisses Ornithologiques,' contains a repre- 

 sentation of this species of Calliste, which was thus for the first time 

 brought before the notice of the scientific world. It is much to be 

 regretted that this book was discontinued after the appearance of the 

 fourth number, which was, I believe, the last published, although 

 Prince Bonaparte in his ' Conspectus ' has quoted the figures of the 

 succeeding part and given descriptions of some of the species of birds 

 which it was intended to have contained. 



The describer of this Tanager tells us little about it except that it 

 is an inhabitant of the eastern part of Peru, where it was discovered by 

 the Baron Popelaire de Terloo, who only met with a single individual 

 of the male sex. I regret to say I can add but very little to M. Du- 

 Bus' account. A single example of this bird only has ever come 

 under my notice, though I am tolerably well acquainted with the 

 museums and collections of Natural History in Europe and North 

 America, and have carefully examined the specimens of Tanagers in 

 all of them. The individual I allude to was obtained by Mr. Ed- 



