i:)ACNis. 479 



G51. Dacnis bicolor. 

 Blue-grey Honey-Creefer. 



Sylvia hicolov Vieill. Ois. d'Amer. Sept. ii. p. 32, pi. 90, 1S07 



(Cayenne). 

 Dacnis jilumhea Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mns. xi. p. 26, 1SS6. 

 Dacnis bicolor Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 390, no. 407G, 



1912. 



Adult male. Crown of head, entire back, wings, and tail greyish 

 blue ; inner webs of flight-quills hair-brown with paler inner 

 edges ; inner webs of tail-feathers dark brown ; sides of face; 

 throat, breast, and sides of Ijody ash-grey ; abdomen, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts cream-wliite like the axillaries, under wing- 

 coverts, and iinier edges of flight-quills below ; lower aspect of 

 tail and und'-r surface of flight-quills hair-brown. 



Total length 112 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing Gl, tail 44-, 

 tarsus 16. 



The specimen described was collected on the Abary River in 

 July 1906. 



Adult female. General colour above yellowish olive-brown, 

 including the crown of the head, entire back, and lesser up[)er 

 wing-coverts ; median and greater upper wing-coverts rather 

 darker than the back with slightly paler margins like the inner- 

 most secondaries ; inner wel)S of flight-quills hair-brown with 

 whitish margins ; tail olive-brown ; sides of face, throat, and 

 entire under surface lemon-yellow, including the axillaries; under 

 wing-coverts and inner edges of (piills below white ; under surface 

 of flight-quills and lower aspect uf tail pale hair-brown. ^\ ing 

 59 mm. 



The female from which the description is takim was collected 

 on the Abary River in November 190(). 



JJreedincf-seasoii. Unknown in British Guiana. 



^yest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



K<j<is. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in JJritisU Guiana. Bartiea, Ai)ary lliver (McConnell 

 collection) . 



Kjctralhnilal Range. Surinam (I'encrd), Cayenne {\'ieillot), 

 Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru. 



Uahlis. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



