1/2 IlRIK.IKI.VN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
TanagrElla iridina (Hartlaub). 
Tanagra iridina Hartl., Rev. Zool. 1841. p. 305. 
Tanagrella iridina Berlepsch & Hartert, p. i8. 
Berlepsch and Hartert report a single specimen, a male, collected 
at Suapure on the Caura River and sent by Klages to the Tring 
Museum, and there is an adult male from La Union on the Caura 
River in the American Museum collection that was collected by 
Klages October loth. This specimen agrees exactly with one from 
Bogota in the same collection. 
Tangara paradisea (Swainson). 
Aglaia paradisea Swains., Class. Birds. II. 1S37. p. 286. 
Calliste paradisea Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 18. 
Collected on the Caura River at Suapure by Klages and at 
Nicare by Andre, and recorded in the T.erlepsch and Hartert paper. 
Tangara xanthogastra (Sclater). 
Calliste .vantliogastra Scl., Contr. Urn. 1851. pp. 27,. 55; Berlepsch & 
Hartert, p. 19. 
Berlepsch and Hartert report this species as also tai<en on the 
Caura at Nicare b_\- Andre. 
Tangara cavana cavana (Linnaeus). 
Tanagra cayana L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12. I. 1766. p. 315. 
Calliste cayana Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 19. 
This is the most abundant species of this group of Tanagers to 
be found along the Orinoco. Specimens were collected at many 
points from Ciudad Bolivar up to above the falls of Maipures ; Klages 
collected a series at Maripa on the Caura River during December, 
February, April and May.» 
In life the eye is dark sepia l)rn\vn ; bill blackish al)ove and slate 
color below ; feet light slate color. Adult birds of this species if held 
between the observer and the light, on a level or slightly below the 
level of the eye, appear a beautiful iridescent golden bronze both 
above and below. 
'Am. Mus. Coll. 
