618 
Mr. Charles Chubb on the 
ground-colour white, dotted and blotched with chestnut- 
brown, clustered more particularly round the larger end, 
where it forms an irregular zone ; the underlying spots are 
paler and more of a lilac colour. Measurements : axis 
0*7 inch; diameter 0*55. 
[Nest built in tangled undergrowth in monte, elevation of 
about six feet, and constructed of loose soft swamp-grass in a 
dry state; three eggs in clutch. This species is by no means 
uncommon. Resident and generally distributed.— W. F.] 
Family Ccerebid^;. 
190. Dacnis cayana. 
Motucilla cayana Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 336 (1766: 
Mexico). 
Pico de punzon celeste y negro Azara, Apunt. i. p. 408. 
no. ciii. (1802). 
Dacnis cayana Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. p. 19 
(1886) ; Ihering, Revista Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 319 (Para- 
guay). 
Dacnis cyanomelas (Gm.) ; Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 114 
(Paraguay). 
Dacnis cayana cayana Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 26 
(1909: Goiaz). 
a. $ ad. Sapucay, December 2, 1902. 
b. $ ad. ,, March 16, 1904. 
c. d, e. f, 9, h. $ ad. Sapucay, April 1903-04. 
Bill horn-coloured ; feet pale pinkish horn-coloured; iris 
ruby-brown. 
i. $ ad. Sapucay, May 29, 1904. 
k-q. S ad. et imm.; r. ? ad. Sapucay, June 1904. 
s. S imm.; t. $ ad. Sapucay, July 1904. 
u, v. S ? a d. Sapucay, August 1904. 
Having compared this series of ten male specimens with 
forty-seven others, in the National Collection, from various 
localities throughout the known range, I have come to the 
conclusion that the so-called Dacnis cayana is divisible into 
four races or subspecies :— 
