BY PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER. 
of which genus M. De Lafresnaye’s C. atro-cyaneum seems to 
haye much resemblance to it. But in that bird the whole under 
surface is black; and I think the present species can hardly be 
separated from the type of the genus Denis, to which it shows so 
much resemblance. My specimen was purchased of Mr, Argent, 
and I haye seen similar ones in Mr. Warwick’s collection. 
3. DACNIS ANGELICA, Dez Fitiert. 
Sylvia cayana, ¥ Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 546. Sylvia cayana, Vieill. Gal. Ois. pl. 165. 
Dacnis cayana, D’Orb. and Lajr. Mag. de Zool. 1837, p. 205 Tschudi, Faun. 
Per, p. 37; Schomb. Reise n. Guian. iii. 675; Bp. Consp. Ay. p. 400, No. 1. 
Daenis angelica, De Filippi, cat. Mus. Mediol., 1844; Bp. Consp. p. 400, No. 3. 
— Dacnis melanotis, Strickl. Cont, Orn. 1851, p. 16. 

$ Turcoso-cxrulea; fronte, lateribus capitis cervicisque, dorso 
summo, alis candaque velutino-nigris; scapularibus margine ceruleis ; 
abdomine medio erigsoque niveis; rostro pedibusque nigris. 
Long. tota, 4.0; ale, 2.3. 
? Supra brunneo-cinerea, olivaceo parum tincta, alis caudaque 
obscurioribus ; infra albescenti-cinerea. 
Habitat, New Granada, Cayenne, Guiana (Schomb.); Yuracares, 
Bolivia (D’Orb.) 
Figured, Pl, Enl. 669, fig. 2.; Vieill. Gal. Ois. pl. 165. 
M. Lesson first clearly distinguished the present bird from the 
first species of the genus, with which it was confounded by the older 
writers, but he unfortunately considered this the true cayana of 
Linneus, and named the other afresh “ Dacnis cyanater.” 'The 
Prince of Canino quotes De Filippi as an authority for the name 
‘ angelica,” under which this species is well described in the Con- 
‘pectus Generum Ayium. I have never seen the work from which 
this description is copied, but I understand it is a Catalogue of the 
Milan Museum, published in 1844. He does not however seem 
to have been aware that it is identical with that figured in the 
Pl. Enl, 669, fig. 2; and Galerie des Oiseaux, t. 165, to which he 
a the name “ cayana.” It may be distinguished from the 
WO preceding by its white belly, and crissum and black ear- 
ae as well as by the splendid turquoise blue of the plumage, 
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