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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



of Sugar-birds is sometimes to be seen among the trees on the 

 outskirts of the town. Tliis is the Blue Creeper (Dacnis cayami), 

 whose habits closely resemble those o£ Todirostrum cinereum)," 

 supra, p. 154. 



650. Dacnis angelica. 



Bl-ACK-BACKED HoNET-CrEEPER. 



Dacnis an<jelica Bonap. Atti sesta Eiuii. See. Ital. 1845, p. 404 

 ("Brasile"); Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 207 (Bartica Grove); Sclater, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 22, 1886 (Bartica 'Grove) ; Brabourne 

 & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 396, no. 4067, 1912. 



Dacnis arcanffelica'Bona.-p. Cat. Ois. de Cayenne, p. 7, 1857; Bull. Soc. 

 Linn. Norm. ii. p. 31, 1857. 



Adult male. Crown of head, lesser upper wing-coverts and 

 scapulars, lower back, rump, and upper tail-ooverts, throat, 

 breast, and sides of the body bright turquoise-blue ; forehead, sides 

 of face, hind-neck, upper back, wings, and tail black ; outer mar- 

 gins of innermost secondary-quills blue ; banal portion of the inner 

 webs of the flight-quills for the greater part white ; middle of 

 lower breast, abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts white, like 

 the axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner margins of quills 

 below ; remainder of the under surface of the quills and lower 

 aspect of tail glossy black. 



Total length 108 mm., exposed culmen 9, wing 56, tail 33, 

 tarsus 18. 



The specimen described was collected on the Bonasika River by 

 Mr. McConnell in December 1898. 



Adult female. Upper surface including the head, back, wings, 

 and tail dark earth-brown ; under parts paler than the back and 

 more olive-brown ; middle of abdomen butfy-white ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts cream-white. Wing 59 mm. 



The female described was collected on the Arawai River. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Gui;ina. 



JSest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



ISggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in Britisli Guiana. Bonasika River, AraMai River, 

 Arwye Creek {McOonnell collection) ; ^aiVi\ca.{Wldtel'y). 



Ewtralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), North-east Brazil, 

 Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



