18 . CCEREBID^. 



wings and tail black, the wing-coverts and secondaries with edgings 

 like the back ; below as above, but the middle of the abdomen and 

 crissum pure white ; under wing-coverts and inner margins of wing- 

 feathers white ; bill and feet black : whole length 4-1 inches, wing 

 2-4, tail 1-6. Female. Above green, brighter on the rump ; wings 

 and tail blackish, edged with green ; below greenish yellow, brighter 

 on the middle of the belly. 



Eab. Colombia, Ecuador, and Eastern Peru. 



a. c? ad. sk. Chamicm-os, Peruvian Ama- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



zons (Bartlctf). 



Xeberos, Peru (Bartlett). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Xeberos, Peruvian Amazons Sclater Coll. 



(Bartlett). 



Sarayacu, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Bogota. Purchased. 



Bogota. Purchased. 



Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



7. DACNIS. Type. 



Dacnis, Cuv. R'egn. An. i. p. 395 (1817) D. cayana. 



Cyanodacnis, Cassiyi, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1864, p. 268 . . D. cayana. 



Polidacnis, C'assin, op. cit. p. 269 1). angelica. 



Eudacnis, Cassin, op. cit. p. 270 D. fiaviventris. 



Ateleodacnis, Cassin, ibid D. leucogenys. 



This genus contains about thirteen species extensively distributed 

 in the Neotropical Hegiou from Nicaragua down to the southern 

 limits of the Brazilian wood-region. They are forest-loving birds, 

 and occur at low rather than at high elevations, though some of 

 the species are certainly met with only in the higher Subandean 

 valleys. 



In the first nine or ten, more typical, members of the group the 

 males are clad in very brilliant plumage, and differ much from the 

 sombre females ; but, as is often the case, in some of the more 

 aberrant species the plumages of the two sexes are nearly similar. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Head blue : interscapulium black. 



a. Throat black. 

 a'. Feet red. 



Body bright blue 1. cayana, p. ] 9. 



Body purplish 2. coere.bicolor, p. 21. 



b'. Feet black 3. niyripes, p. 21. 



b. Throat blue 



e'. Sides of head black ; 



J middle of belly white 4. angelica, p. 22. 



1. middle of belly yellow 5. eyregia, p. 22. 



d'. Sides of head blue 6. viguieri, p. 23. 



B. Head green; abdomen yellow 7. fiaviventris, p. 23, 



C. Head blue ; abdomen black 8. venustu, p. 24. 



D. Head black; abdomen silvery green 9. pulcherrima, p. 24. 



