PIPRA. 109 
Nitide nigerrima ; capite toto coccineo, plumis ad basin albis, mento, femoribus et subalaribus citrinis : rostro 
et pedibus carneis. Long. tota 4-0, ale 2:3, caude 1:1, rostri a rictu 0°5, tarsi 0-5. 
© olivaceo-viridis: subtus pallidior, subalaribus pallide flavidis. (Descr. maris et femine ex Choctum, 
Guatemala, Mus. nostr.) , 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé1), Playa Vicente (Boucard 2), Teapa in Tabasco (Mrs. H. 
Hf. Smith), Tizimin in Yucatan, Meco and Mugeres Islands (Gauwmer); Britisu 
Honpuras, Orange walk (Gaumer), Cayo (Blancaneauxz); GuaTeMata, Choctum, 
Yzabal (0. S. & F. D. G.); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belé1°) ; Costa Rica, Tucurriqui, 
Turrialba (Arcé), Angostura (Carmiol’); Panama, Bugaba, Mina de Chorcha 
(Arcé?°), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan *). 
M. Sallé was the first to discover this pretty Pipra in the forests in the vicinity of 
Cordova in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz, and this is the most northern point recorded 
of its range; but from this place southwards it occurs nearly uninterruptedly in the 
forests on the eastern side of the Cordillera to the State of Panama, where it is also 
found in the forests bordered by the Pacific Ocean. 
It has not yet been met with in any portion of Western Mexico or Guatemala; but 
in the hotter portions of British Honduras and Vera Paz it is abundant up to an eleva- 
tion of about 2000 feet. It frequents the underwood in the mixed tropical forest of 
lofty trees. 
Pipra mentalis is the only species having a yellow chin, thighs, and under wing- 
coverts. P. chloromeros of Peru and Bolivia also has yellow thighs, but the chin and 
under wing-coverts are black. . 
2. Pipra auricapilla. 
Manacus aurocapillus, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 448, t. 84. f. 2°. 
Pipra erythrocephala, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 339°. 
Pipra auricapilla, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 29°; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 92*; Scl. Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 296°. 
Nitide nigerrima ; capite et nucha aureis, margine postico coccineo; femoribus extrorsum coccineis, introrsum 
albis; subalaribus albido intermixtis: rostro et pedibus carneis. Long. tota 3°5, ale 2°2, caudee 0-8, rostri 
a rictu 0-45, tarsi 0°55, (Descr. maris ex Chepo, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
2 olivaceo-viridis, subtus pallidior. 
Hab. Panama, Chepo (Arcé).— South America, Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana 1, and 
Amazons valley. 
This common South-American species can hardly be called a member of our fauna, 
but we include it here since we possess a male specimen from Chepo, on the isthmus of 
Panama, a little to the south-eastward of the railway. As P. mentalis occurs on the 
line of railway itself, the boundary of the ranges of the two species is probably thus 
indicated to within a few miles. P. auricapilla is also found in the Cauca valley, 
Venezuela, Trinidad, Guiana, and the whole of the Amazons valley up to the base of 
the Andes. 
