ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF CALLISTE. 
in C. chrysophrys ; and there are no traces of that golden hue on 
the front and superciliary feathers, whence the latter species takes 
its name, 
CALLISTE CHRYSOPHRYS, Scrarer. 
PuaTe LxIx. Fig. 2. 
Spotted Emerald Tanager, Lath. Gen. Hist. vi. p. 19. 
Calospiza punctata, Wiegm. Arch. 1844, p. 286.? 
. » y Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, p. 203.? 
Calliste supra leté viridis, capite summoque dorso nigro maci- 
lata; loris atris; fronte, genis, superciliisque aureis ; remigibus 
secondariis tectricibusque nigris, late cwruleo-viridi marginatis ; 
primariis caudique nigris yiridi limbatis ; subtis cerrulescentt- 
candicans, punctis rotundis in pectore nigrig; ventre medio criss0- 
que flavicantibus, lateribus yirescentibus: cauda infra cerulescente, 
pennis fuscis; pedibus et rostro nigris, mandibulé inferiore albo 
notata. 
Long, tota, 5.6; ale, 3.8, : 
Habitat in Columbia, Venezuela, et insula Trinidad. 
Above, golden green, passing into golden-yellow on front and 
supercilia, spotted, principally between the wings, with black ; ai 
black ; secondaries and tertials broadly edged with bright greenish- 
blue; tail black, edged with the same green as the back ; breast 
bluish-white, with conspicuous round black spots ; belly yellowish: 
sides green; tail below bluish, wings dusky; feet and beak black; 
lower mandible crossed with a white stripe. 
Whole length, 5.6 ; wing, 3.8, 
Inhabits Columbia, Venezuela, and Trinidad. | 
I have little doubt that I am correct in quoting the wae 
synomyme as belonging to this species, though M. Tschudi does " 
say any thing of the golden yellow of the front and supercilil™, 
which are very bright in the adult birds. The specimen here aie 
was sold to me by Mr. Cuming, as having been brought from an 
by Mr. Bridges, but I believe it nevertheless to be a Venezue™ 
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specimen, from its resemblance to another skin of this spectes 
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