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4. Dacnis angelica. 



Le Pipit bleu de Cayenne, Daub. PI. Enl. 669. fig. 2 (J). 



Sylvia cavana y, Luth. Ind. Ovii. p. 546. 



Sylvia cayana, Vieill. Gal. Ois. p. 269, pi. 165. 



Dacnis cayana, Grat/, Gen. B. i. p. 102 ; d''Orh. et Lafr. Syn. Av. i. 



p. 20 ; Tsch. Faun. Per., Aves, p. 37 ; Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. 



p. 675 ; Bp. Coiisp. i. p. 400 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 153 ; Pelzeln, 



Orn. Bras. p. 25. 

 Dacnis angelica, De Filijypi, Atti sesta Riun. Sc. It. p. 404 (1845) ; 



id. Cat. Mus. Medial. (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 400 ; M. Contr. 



Orn. 1851, p. 107 ; id. P. Z. S. 1854, pp. 110, 252, 1855, p. 137, 



1857, p. 263 ; id. Ibis, 1863, p. 815 ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, i. p. 429; 



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

 Dacnis uielanotis, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 16 ; Scl. Cat. A. B. 



p. 61 ; id. Ibis, 1863, p. 315 ; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1864, p. 269 ; 



Sel. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 179 (Ucayali), 1867, p. 749 (E. Peru), 



p. 977 (Pebas), 1873, p. 185 (S. Peru), p. 259 (E. Peru), 1879, 



p. 597 ; iid. Noniencl. p. 16. 

 Dacnis archangelica, Bp. Cat. Ois. de Cayenne, p. 7. 



Bright blue ; broad front, sides of the head and neck, and inter- 

 Bcapulium jet-black ; wings and tail black ; secondaries edged exter- 

 nally -with blue ; middle of belly, crissum, thighs, under wing- 

 coverts, and inner margins of wing-feathers pure white ; bill and 

 feet black : whole length 3"2 inches, wing 2-3, tail 1-5. Female. 

 Above slaty brown with an olive tinge ; beneath much paler, more 

 cinereous ; under wing- coverts white. 



Hah. Colombia, the Guianas and Amazonia, extending to Eastern 

 Peru and Bolivia. 



The name " angelica " was originally intended for the Colombian 

 variety of this widely diffused bird, which was formerly mis- 

 called D. cayana (cf. Strickland, I. s. c). But as the Colombian and 

 Guianan forms are quite inseparable, and as Strickland's "mela- 

 notis," bestowed on the Guianan bird, bears a more recent date, 

 " angelica " becomes the correct name of the species wherever it 

 occurs. 



a,b. S 2 s<l- s^- Cayenne. Sclater Coll. 



c, d. c? 5 ad. sk. Bartica Grove, British Gui- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ana ( Whitely). 



e. cJ ad. st. Demerara. Purchased. 



/. 5 a.d. sk. Bogota. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. (S ad. St. Bogota. Purchased. 



h, i. cJ ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



j, Jc. (^ 2 fid. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador {Buck- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ley). 



I, m. c? ad. sk. Intaj, Ecuador (Bucklm/). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



n, 0. c? ad. sk. Pebas, E. Peru ( Hau.nvell) . Salvin-Godman Coll. 



p. cJ ad. sk. Ucayali River, E, Peru. Purchased. 



q,r. <5jr., etjad. St. S.America. Purchased. 



5. Dacnis egregia. 



Dacnis egregria, Scl. P. Z. S. 1854, p. 252, 1855, p. 1.37, 1860, 

 pp. 65, 292 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 51, pi. vii. ; id. Ibis, 1863, p. 316; 



