618 Mr. Charles Chubb on the 



ground-colour white, dotted and blotched with chestnut- 

 brown, clustered more particularly round the larger end, 

 where it forms an irregular zone ; the underlying spots are 

 paler and more of a lilac colour. Measurements : axis 

 0'7 inch ; diameter 055. 



[Nest built in tangled undergrowth in monte, elevation of 

 about six feet, and constructed of loose soft swamp-grass in a 

 dry state ; three eggs in clutch. This species is by no means 

 uncommon. Resident and generally distributed. — W. F.~\ 



Family Cozrebid^:. 



190. Dacnis cayana. 



Motucilla cayana Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 336 (17GG : 

 Mexico). 



Pico de punzon celeste y negro Azara, Apunt. i. p. 408. 

 no. ciii. (1802). 



Dacnis cayana Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 19 

 (1886) ; Ihering, Revista Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 319 (Para- 

 guay)- 



Dacnis cyanomelas (Gm.) ; Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 114 

 (Paraguay). 



Dacnis cayana cayana Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 26 

 (1909: Goiaz). 



a. $ ad. Sapucay, December 2, 1902. 



b. ? ad. „ March 16, 1904. 



c. d, e. S; f,g, h. ? ad. Sapucay, April 1903-04. 



Bill horn-coloured ; feet pale pinkish horn-coloured ; iris 

 ruby-brown. 



i. <$ ad. Sapucay, May 29, 1904. 



k—q. J 1 ad. et imm.; r. ? ad. Sapucay, June 1904. 



s. <$ imm.; t. ? ad. Sapucay, July 1904. 



u, v. S ? ad. Sapucay, August 1901. 



Having compared this series of ten male specimens with 

 forty-seven others, in the National Collection, from various 

 localities throughout the known range/ 1 have come to the 

 conclusion that the so-called Dacnis cayana is divisible into 

 four races or subspecies : — 



