CALLIOPE PECTORALES»/«»»?
C A l i l i lO P B P B C T O R A L I S , Gould.
Call, vértice, corporeque summo, intensé ciñereis; lineá albá latá a naribus supra oculos transeúnte; loro, lined infra-
oculari, plumis auricularibus, pectoreque nigerrimis ; gutture splendidé coccíneo; ális fuscis; ventre, crissoque albis ;
lateribus ciñereis; rectricibus cauda duabus intermediis intensé fuscis, reliquis mediam partera fuscam, basalem, apica-
lemque albas habentibus ; rostro pedibusque fuscis.
Long. tot. une.; rostri, £ ; ala, 2|- ; cauda, 2±; tarsi, 1£.
Crown of the head and all the upper surface deep g rey ; a broad stripe of white passes from the nostrils over each
eye; space between the bill and the eye, line under the eye, ear-coverts and chest deep black; throat rich
scarlet; wings brown; belly and under tail-coverts white; flanks g rey; two centre tail-feathers deep brown;
the remainder brown in the centre with their basal half and tips white; bill and legs-brown.
Calliope pectoralis, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part V. 1837.
One o f the few genera I found it necessary to characterize during the progress o f my work on the Birds of
Europe was that o f Calliope, which was established for the reception o f the Accentor Calliope o f Temminck,
to which genus, in my opinion, th at bird had no immediate relation, and I conceive that the propriety o f this
separation is strengthened by the recent addition o f the present elegant species, which has lately been sent
from the Himalaya. One of the most important differences in this new species consists in the presence of
the white markings o f the basal portion o f the tail-feathers, a circumstance which, together with some other
particulars, tends much to show its close relationship to the birds forming the Saxicoline tribe, while in the
markings o f its throat it has a near affinity to the Blue-throated Warbler, genus Cyanecula, Briss.
I possess a single specimen o f this beautiful bird, which is the only one I have ever seen.
Habitat Himalaya Mountains.
The Plate represents the bird o f the natural size in different positions.