396 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



(?) Daaiixraitdud (not Motacllla cayana Linnaeus) S.vi.vix, Ibis, 1870, 185 (Mina de 



Chorcha, Veragna); 1872, 313, 314 (Chontales, Nicaragua). — Sclater, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 19, part (Chontales, Nicaragua; Chepo, Veragua; 



Lion Hill and Panama, Panama R. R.). 

 (?) Daaiis cayana glaucogularis Berlepsch and Stolzmanx, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., Aug. 1, 1896, 336 (La Gloria and La Merced, centr. Peru; coll. 



Branicki Mus.).' 



DACNIS VIGUIERI Oustalet. 

 VIGUIER'S DACNIS. 



Ad^dt male. — Bluish green, the lores, back, and tail black; primaries 

 black, with inner webs edged with white; distal secondaries blackish, 

 edged with green, proximal secondaries (tertials) broadly edged with 

 3'ellowish green, their inner webs blackish; bill and feet black; length, 

 119.9; tail, 50; tarsus, 15; exposed culmen, 9.9. 



"Head, throat, breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts bright green 

 glossed with blue, corresponding with the color called in France 

 cendre-vert; lores, back, and tail deep black; remiges black, their 

 inner we))s edged with white; innermost secondaries black margined 

 with clear green, the remaining secondaries for the greater part green 

 with an inner margin of black; lesser (?) coverts gloss}^ yellowish or 

 golden green, the other coverts brilliant green glossed with 1)1 ue, but 

 the concealed portions black; )>ill and feet uniform black. Iris golden 

 yellow (according to M. Viguier)."'^ 



Isthmus of Panama (coast of Gulf of Darien). 



A very distinct species, which 1 have not seen. 



Dacnisviguieri Oustalet, in Salvin and Godman's Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, Nov., 



1883, 246 (Isthmus of Panama; coll. Paris Mus.). 

 Dacnis viguerl Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, pi. 15a, fig. 3. 



DACNIS VENUSTA Lawrence. 

 SCARLET-THIGHED DACNIS. 



Adult wale. — Forehead, lores, orbits, triangular postocular mark, 

 anterior portion of malar region, chin, throat, and rest of under parts 

 (except thighs) greenish black or dark "invisible" green; thighs 

 bright scarlet; head and neck, except as described, scapulars, median 

 portion of back, rump, and part of upper tail-coverts rich turquoise 

 blue; wings, tail, and longer upper tail-coverts black; under wing- 

 coverts partly white; bill black; legs and feet brownish (in dried 

 skin.s); length (skins), 114.8-124 (119.1); wing, 63.5-71.4 (68.8); tail, 



'Typical specimens (received from the Branicki Museum) are undistinguishable 

 from a light-colored example of D. c. ultnimarina from Chiriqui. AH Peruvian 

 specimens examined agree with the Central American form in the color of the 

 throat (as distinguished from that of D. c. cayana), but none of them exhibit the 

 deep blue color characteristic of most specimens of D. c. ul/ramarina, being in this 

 respect like true I), (•((jiamt. 



'^ Free translation of Oustalet's original description, in Biologia Centraii-Americ^iua, 

 Aves, i, 246. 



