ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 
Daenis cyanater, Less. Traité Orn., p. 458. 
Blue; front, chin, throat, upper back, wings and tail, black; 
remiges and wing-covers edged with blue. 
Habitat. Brazil, Cayenne (?) 
2. Dacnis melanotis, Strickland. 
Pitpit bleu de Cayenne, Buff., Pl. Enl. 669, figs. 1, 2. 
Sylvia cayana, y., Lath. Ind. Orn., p. 546. 
Dacenis cayana, Gray, Gen. Birds, sp. 1. 
Daenis cyanocephala, Gray, Gen. Birds, pl. 34, fig. 2. 
Blue; front, cheeks, ear-covers, sides of neck, upper back, wings 
and tail, black; middle of belly and lower tail-covers, white. 
Habitat. Cayenne (?), Demerara. 
GOLDANA CAPISTRATOIDES. 
ConrTriB. Orn. 1849, p. 128. 
Tuts bird should have been called Drymocotaphus capistratoides. 
It is incorrectly stated that the bird “ belongs to Mr. Blyth’s genus 
Goldana,” whereas the latter word was not coined by Mr. Blyth, 
but by Mr. G. R. Gray, in the first edition of his “ List of va 
Genera of Birds,” 1840, p. 25, as a synonyme of Brachyptery 
Horsfield, on the alleged ground that the latter word was pre 
occupied in entomology. This, however, was a mistake, the name 
Brachypterya not having been repeated in any other department ° 
zoology, if we may trust Agassiz’s Nomenclator Zoologicus. - [ 
Gray seems to haye perceived this error, as in his two later editions 
of the “ Genera of Birds,” he restores the name Brachyptery” ag 
omits his name Goldana altogether ; consequently the latter pame 
should not have been applied to the species nigrocaptiata 0 
capistratoides, which belong to a distinct generic type from ar 
chypteryx montana, and I would therefore substitute the gener 
name, Drymocotaphus, which Mr. Blyth has proposed —4- a 
