\ CALLISTE XANTHOCEPHALA. 



THE ORANGE-CROWNED TANAGER. 



PLATE XLIV. Fig. 1. 



Callospiza xanthocephala, Tsch. Wiegm. Arch. 1844, p. 285; Faun. Per. 

 p. 200. pi. 17. fig. 2(/5r.^es6r.). . 

 Gray, Gen. App. p. 17. 

 Bp. Consp. p. 235. 



Calliste lamprotis .... Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 65. 



Chrysothraupis xanthocephala, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 443 ; 

 Note s. 1. Tang. p. 17. 



CaUiste xanthocephala, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1 856, p. 264 ; Syn. Av. Tan. p. ,90. 



Mas adultus. Cserulescenti-viridis : interscapulii alarum et caudte 

 plumis nigris, illo colore limbatis : fronte, loris, regione oculari, 

 gula summa et cervice postica nigris : pileo toto aurantiaco : 

 capitis lateribus cum regione auriculari flavissimis : ventre medio 

 et crisso pallide ocbraceis : rostro nigro : pedibus brunneis : long, 

 tota 5 "3, alse 2*9, caudse 1*9 poll. Angl. 



Dr. Tscbudi discovered this brilliant species of Calliste in the hot 

 wood-region of Eastern Peru, and described and figured it in his 

 " Untersuchungen iiber die Fauna Peruana." The plate of the bird, 

 hovrever, there given is by no means an accurate representation of 

 this Tanager, and certainly more nearly resembles the next-foUowuig 

 species Calliste venusta. There are no signs in Dr. Tschudi's draw- 

 ing of the bright reddish-orange of the crown, which offers quite a 

 brilliant contrast to the golden-yellow sides of the head, and at once 

 distinguishes the present species from the following. Under such 

 circumstances therefore, it is not astonishing that I fell into the error 

 of considering the next-follovidng bird to be Tschudi's xanthocephala, 

 and describing the present species as new imder the title of CaUiste 

 lamprotis. In the Berlin and, if I mistake not, in the French Na- 

 tional Collection also, I found this same bird marked Calliste xantho- 

 cephala, so I was not alone in my error. Great was my surprise. 



