ORNITHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 
7. DACNIS PLUMBEA (Lath.), Cab. 
Sylvia plumbea, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 558. Sylvia bicolor, Vieill. Ois. de l’Am. 
Sept. pi. 90. bis? Sylvia ccerulescens, Max. Beitr. iii. 713. Dacnis plum- 
bea, Faun. Per. pp. 37, 236. 
D. plumbeo-coerulea ; remigibus rectricibusque nigricantibus plum- 
beo-cceruleo marginatis, primarioruin pogonio externo albicantibus ; 
subtus cinereo-albida rufescente mixta, ventre medio crissoque 
rufescentioribus. 
Long, tota, 4 . 2 J ; alse, 2 . 3^. 
Habitat, Trinidad (Ld. Harris) ; Cayenne ; E. Brazil (Max.) ; 
Peru (Tsch.) 
There is an eighth species, as yet undescribed, in the collection 
of the Baron de Lafresnaye. 
The second figure given in the accompanying plate is of Dacnis 
ccerebicolor, Sclater, Orn. Cont. 1851, p. 106. The specimens there 
mentioned as in Mr. Warwick’s collection are now in the Philadel- 
phian Museum. 
I find that the specific appellation angdica, used by me for the 
third species of Dacnis, p. 107, was originally published by M. de 
Filippi in the Atti della Ota Biunione degli Scienziati Ttaliani, and 
there applied to the New Grenadian variety of that species which 
I described as being of brighter colouring. In the Catalogue* of 
the Milan Museum, M. de Philippi admits that the bird to which 
this name is applied is merely a variety of the ordinary species, 
which he calls <e cayana .” Since however it is not the true “ cayana ’ 
of Linnseus, we must nevertheless use the name “ angelica ” (as 
adopted in my synopsis) for its specific title, such being the earliest 
that can be rightly employed. 
* This paper appears to be very little known. Mr. Edward Wilson, who is col- 
lecting zoological works of every description for the Philadelphian Academy, has 
allowed me to inspect his copy, which is the only one I believe that has ever been 
in England. There is no title-page; but it is headed “Museum Mediolanense, 
No. 1. Animalia Vertebrata Classis Ilda. Aves.” In an appendix which is signed 
“ Ph. de Filippi Mense Martii, 1847,” the following new species of birds are de- 
scribed— JSalicaria italica, De Fil.; Formicivora genei, De FiL; Garrulax vittatus> 
De Fil. ; Ceblepyris luctuosus, De Fil. ; Graucalus torquatus, De Fil. ; Pachy 
rkamphus dimidiatus, De Fil. ; Lanius ( Collurio) jeracopis, De Fil.; Thamnophilus 
janii, De Fil. ; and Sturnella bellicosa, De Fil. 
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