ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 
By H. E, STRICKLAND. 

I. ON AN HITHERTO UNNAMED SPECIES OF DACNIS. 
DACNIS MELANOTIS, Strickland. 
Tus Species was long since figured in Buffon’s Planches Enlu- 
minées, pl. 669, but has never yet received a specific name which 
can be logically retained. By older authors it was regarded as a 
Variety of their Certhia or Dacnis cayana. Mr. Gray was the first 
‘0 distinguish it specifically; but he erroneously applies to it the 
imhean specific name cayana, and has moreover figured its head. 
under the name of D. cyanocephala, The two species may be thus 
distinguished no 
1. Daenis cayana (Linn). 
Ph cayanensis coerulea, Briss. Orn., vol. iii. p. 534, pl. 28, 
Blue Manakin, Edwards’ Birds, pl. 263, fig. inf. 
Pines cayana, Linn, Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 336. 
ylvia viridis, Briss. Orn., vol. iii. p. 581, pl. 28, fig. 4. 
Aotacilte cyanocephala, Gm. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 990. 
ringilla ceerulea, Koelruter in Nov. Com, Petr., vol. xi. p- 434, 
vi 15, fig. 6, 
ah cyanomelas, Gm. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 924. 
vd h arinia bicolor, Becklemichew in Nouv. Mém. Soc. Mosc., 
"1: p. 878, pl. 23, 
aenis bicolor, Gray, Gen. Birds, sp. 5. 
ectarinia cyanocephala, Swains. Zool. Ul., ser. i. pl. 117. 
fig, so cyanocephala, Gray, Gen. Birds, sp. 2 (nec plate 34, 
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