7. DACNIS. 23 



Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 117 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 497 (Antio- 

 quia) ; id. Nojnend. p. 16; Berlepsch, J. f. 0. 1884, p. 286 (Buca- 

 ramanga). 

 Dacnis egregia asquatorialis, Berl. J. f. 0. 1873, p. 69 ; Berl. et Tacz. 

 P. Z. jS. 1883, p. 543. 



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

 pulium glossy black ; wings and tail black ; secondaries edged exter- 

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

 coverts sulphur-yellow ; bill and feet black : whole length 4-3 

 inches, wing 2-5, tail 1-5. Female. Above olive-brown, wings and 

 tail brown ; tail beneath paler ; abdomen yellowish. 



Bab. Interior of Colombia and "Western Ecuador. 



In skins from "Western Ecuador (subsp. cequatorialis) the blue 

 colour has a more greenish hue. This species is nearly similar to 

 D. angelica, except in having the abdomen and under wing-coverts 

 bright yellow instead of white. 



a. Subsp. tijpica. 



a. (S ad. St. Bogota. Purchased. 



b,c. cJ 2 ad. sk. Bogota. Purchased. 



d,e. (S 2 ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater CoU. 



/. S ad. sk. Remedies, Autioquia {Sal- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



mon). 



b. Subsp. (pquatonalis. 



a, h. S ad. sk. Napo, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c,d. c? $ ad. sk. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. c? ad. sk. Nanegal, Ecuador (J?-ase?-). Salvin-Godman CoU, 



f,9- d ? ad. sk. Esmeraldas, Ecuador {Fra- Sclater Coll. 

 ser). 



6. Dacnis vignieri. 



Dacnis viguieri, Salv. et Godm. Biol. C.-A., Aves, i. p. 246, tab. xv a 

 fig. 3. y > ■ • 



Greenish blue ; lores, iuterscapulium, and tail black ; wings black ; 

 secondaries edged externally with greenish blue ; under wing- 

 coverts white ; bill and feet black : whole length 4-5 inches, wino- 

 2-4, tail 2. {Oustalet.) " 



Hab. Isthmus of Darien. 



Only known from the single specimen in the Paris Museum. 



a. Drawing from the typical specimen {Eeulemans). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 7. Dacnis flaviventris. 



Dacnis flaviventris, d'Orb. et Lafr. Si/n. Av. i. p. 21 ; Bp. Cotisp i 

 p. 400 ; Scl. Contr. Oni. 1851, pp. 108, 114; id. P. Z. S. 1854, p 252" 

 1857, p. 263; id. Cat. A. B. p. 51; id. Ibis, 1863, p. 316; Cassin, 

 Pr. Ac. Se. Phil 1864, p. 270; Pelz. Oni. Bras. p. 25; Gray 



p. oy/ ; nrf. JSomencl. p. io ; I acz. Urn. Perou, i. p. 

 Couirostrum ! flaviventre, Reichenb. Handb. p. 229. 



