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Mr. P. L. Sclater on a new 
terized three new species of this genus from Bolivia, namely 
C. punctulata, C. j'ulvicervix, and C. argyrofenges *, thus rais¬ 
ing the number to fifty-nine. A skin of a new and sixtieth 
species, which I propose to name, is now before me; and I 
will take this opportunity of giving a few additional remarks 
on some of the lately described members of the group. 
In the f Proceedings' for 1858 (p. 294), I based a new 
species of Calliste , under the name of C. cyanotis, on a skin 
received through the MM. Verreaux, “from some part of 
Peru bordering on Bolivia, or perhaps from within the con¬ 
fines of that Republic." In 1863, in the article in this journal 
above referred to, I stated that I had received through the 
same firm, from the Bio Napo, an example of what I believed 
to be the same species in a more adult dress, and gave a 
revised description of it accordingly. I have been able to 
add nothing further to the history of this species until quite 
recently, when, on examining Mr. Buckley's last collection 
of Bolivian birds f, Mr. Salvin and I found in the series a 
single skin which seemed to belong to it. On comparing this 
with the two previously described specimens of C. cyanotis in 
my cabinet, it appeared at once that I had fallen into an 
error. The individual obtained by Mr. Buckley was certainly 
identical with the first example, obtained in 1858; while the 
second so-called C. cyanotis , received in 1863, which I had 
supposed to be a more adult specimen of the same species, 
was decided, on reexamination and comparison, to be clearly 
distinct. On this last-named individual, therefore, I propose 
to base a new species, as follows :— 
Calliste melanotis, sp. nov. (Plate XII. fig. 1.) 
Calliste cyanotis, Sclater, Ibis, 1863, p. 451 (err.). 
Nigra: superciliis latis et elongatis, dorso postico, campterio 
alari et cor pore subtus splendide cserulescenti-viridibus ; 
ventre medio et crisso cum subalaribus cervinis : alarum 
tectricibus necnon rectricum remigumque marginibus 
angustis cserulescentibus: rostro nigro, pedibus fuscis: 
long, tota 5*0, alse 2*8, caudse 1*9, poll, et dec. angl. 
* See paper on new Bolivian Birds, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 352. 
t See P. Z. S. 1876, p. 352. 
