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it resembles D. angelica. A glance, however, at its lower surface, 
where a bright yellow takes the place of the pure white belly and 
under wing-coverts of the other species, is sufficient to show its dis- 
tinctness. 
Since I wrote some papers on the genus Daenis in Sir William 
Jardine’s ‘Contributions to Ornithology,’ Professor Reichenbach of 
Dresden has treated of this family in his ‘ Handbuch der Speciellen 
Ornithologie,’ part iv. Professor Reichenbach is unpleasantly sur- 
prised, he there says, to find that I have described a Dacnis cayana, 
which is by no means cayana, but no other than his third species, 
D. cyanomelas. Now, I admit that my D. cayana is nothing 
more than Prof. Reichenbach’s third species, which he calls ecyano- 
melas; but I maintain that this very bird is no other than the 
true cayana of Linneeus. There is no such bird in existence as that 
characterized by Prof. Reichenbach as cayana. Brisson’s descrip- 
tion, it is true, is bad, and Buffon’s figure worse, but they can be 
respectively intended for no other bird than the common black and 
blue species which is called by Prof. Reichenbach D. cyanomelas. 
I am in my turn unpleasantly surprised to find that Prof. Reichen- 
bach has removed my Daenis cerebicolor into his genus Arbelorhina, 
with which it has nothing to do; that he has made Daenis flaviven- 
tris of D’Orbigny’s Voyage a Conirostrum, which it certainly is not, 
and has unnaturally placed the hook-billed Diglosse in the middle of 
the typical Dacnidine. 
I subjoin a list of the nine species of the genus Daenzs with which 
I am now acquainted, excluding the atricapilla of my former synopsis, 
which Prof. Reichenbach has with some reason made the type of his 
new genus Chlorophanes. 
1. Dacnis cayana (Lin.) Cont. to Om. 1851. p. 106. sp. 1.— 
D. cayana et cyanomelas, Reich. Handb. d. Spec. Orn. p. 226 et 
227. Ex ins. Trinitatis; Guiana; Cayenna; Brasilia orientali et 
interiore ; Peruvia orientali et Bolivia. 
2. DACNIS CHREBICOLOR, Sclater. Cont. to Orn. 1851. p. 106. 
sp. 2.—Arbelorhina (!) cerebicolor, Reich. J. c. p. 236. Ex Nova 
Grenada. 
3. DACNIS HARTLAUBI, Sclater. Ex Nova Grenada. 
4. Dacnis ANGELICA, De Filippi. Cont. to Orn. 1851. p. 108. 
sp. 3.—Reich. p. 227. Ex Guiana; Cayenna; Nova Grenada; 
Peruvia Cisandeana et Bolivia. 
5. Dacnis EGREGIA, Sclater. Ex Nova Grenada. 
6. Dacnis rLAviventrRis, D’Orb. et Lafr. Cont. to Orn. 1851. 
p. 108. sp. 5.—Conirostrum (!) flaviventre, Reich. 1. c. p. 229. Ex 
Bolivia et Peruvia Cisandeana. 
7. DACNIS PULCHERRIMA, Sclater. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853. 
p- 479. Ex Nova Grenada. 
8. Dacnis speciosa (Pr. Max.). Cont. to Om. 1852. p. 101. 
sp. 6. Reich. J. c. p. 228. Ex Brasilia et Bolivia. 
9. Dacnis PLUMBEA (Latham). Cont. to Orn. 1852. p. 102. 
sp. 7. Reich. 7. c. p. 228. Ex Guiana et Brasilia. 
