7. DACXIS. 19 



E. General plumage grey. 



e'. Crissuin chestnut. 



a". Cap black ; back grey 10. kiicogenys, p. 25. 



b". Cap grey like the back; 



r below bluish grey 11. analis, p. 25. 



\ below whitish grey 12. speciosa, p. 26. 



f. Crissum like the belly 13. plunihea, p. 26. 



F. Male unknown ; female above dark yellowish 



olive 14. salmoni, p. 27. 



1. Dacnis cay ana. 



Sylvia cayanensis cserulea, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 5-34. 



Blue Manakin, Edioards, Birds, pi. 203. 



MotaciDa cayana, lAnn. S. N. i. p. 336. 



Le Pipit bleu de Cayenne, Dauh. PL mi 6G[). fig. 1 ( d )• 



Grimpereau verd de Bresil, Daub. PI. Enl. 578. fig. 1(5). 



Fringilla cyanomelas, Gm. S. N. i. p. 024. 



Motacilla cyanocephala, Gm. S. N. i. p. 000 ( 2 ). 



Nectarinia bicolor, BecM. Nouv. Mem. Soc. Mosc. i. p. 378, pi. xxiii. 



Nectarinia cyanocephala, Sw. Zool. III. ser. i. pi. 117 ($). 



Ccereba cserulea. Max. Beitr. ii. p. 766. 



Dacnis cyanater, Less. Tr. d^Orn. p. 458 ; d'0)-b. et Lafr. Syn. Av.'\. 



p. 21. 

 Dacnis cyanomelas, Burtn. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 153 ; Reichenb. Handb. 



p. 227 ; Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1873, p. 235. 

 Dacnis cayana, StricM. C'ontr. Orn. 1851, p. 15; Bp. Consp. i. p. 400 ; 



Scl Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 106; id. Cat. A. B. p. 60; id. P. Z. S. 



1854, pp. 110, 252, 1855, p. 137, 1858, p. 452; id. Ibis, 1863, 



p. 313 ; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil 1864, p. 268 ; Taijlor, Ibis, 1864, 



p. 81 (Trinidad) ; Scl et Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 179, 1867, pp. 570, 



749, 977, 187.3' p. 259, 1875, p. 237, 1879, pp. 496, 597; iid. 



Nomencl p. 16 ; Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 185 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 313 ; 



Layard, Ibis, 1873, p. 378 (Lower Amazons) ; Leotaud, B. of 



Trinidad, p. 124; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 510, 1882, p. 9; id. Orn. 



Perou, i. p. 428; Sah. et Godm. Biol C.-A., Ares, i. p. 244; Salv. 



Ibis, 1885, p. 207 (Brit. Guian.). 

 Dacnis cyanocephala. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 102; d'Orb. Voy., Ois. 



p. 221 ; Cab. in ScJiomb. Guian. iii. p. 675. 

 Dacnis nigripes, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil 1864, p. 269. 

 Dacnis coerebicolor, Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. vii. p. 291. 

 Dacnis ultramarina, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil 1864, p. 106 ; id. Ibis, 



1865, p. 106 ; id Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 179, ix. p. 97 ; Scl et Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1864, p. 348 ; iid. Nomencl p. 16 ; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil 



1864, p. 269 ; Salv. et Godm. Biol C.-A., Aves, i. p. 244. 



Shining blue, with a greenish tinge ; interscapulium, front, lores, 

 and throat black ; wings and tail black ; wings edged with blue ; 

 under wing-coverts and underside of wings cinereous ; bill horn- 

 colour ; feet flesh-colour : whole length 4-2 inches, wing 2-2, tail 1-6. 

 Female. Bright green ; head blue ; throat cinereous. 



Hah. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and South America down 

 to S. Brazil and Bolivia. 



In some specimens from Panama and northwards {D. vltramarina 

 of Lawrence) the male is distinguishable by its deeper shining blue 

 colour, with less greenish tinge. But I can only regard this form 



c2 



