110 PIPRIDA. 
Linneus’s name P. erythrocephala is chiefly applicable to this species, but as it 
conveys a wrong impression as to the colour of the head, it has never been generally 
used, 
b’. Vertex ceruleus. 
3. Pipra velutina. 
Pipra velutina, Berl. Ibis, 1883, p. 492*; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 299°. 
Chiroxiphia cyaneocapilla, Lawr. Aun. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 296 (nec Hahn)’. 
Pipra cyaneocapilla, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. 8S. 1864, p. 362*; 1879, p. 519°; Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 149°; 
1870, p. 200’. 
Nitide nigerrima; capite summo lete cyaneo, fronte nigra. Long. tota 3:5, rostro et pedibus nigricantibus, 
ale 2°3, caude 1:0, rostri a rictu 0°4, tarsi 0-5. 
viridis, subtus pallidior, pectore et hypochondriis dorso fere concoloribus. (Descr. maris et feminw ex 
Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Panama (Ribbe +), Bugaba’, V. de Chiriqui’, Santiago de Veraguas ¢ (Arcé,), Lion 
Hill (¢‘Leannan ? *).—NortHern Coiomsia®, 
This species, which was separated by Count Berlepsch, is very closely allied to 
P. cyaneocapilla of the Amazons valley, but the blue of the crown of the head is of 
rather a deeper tint, the forehead is more decidedly black, and there is no indication 
of the indigo tint which suffuses the lower back of P. cyaneocapilla. 
The bird has been known to us for some time from specimens sent us by M‘Leannan 
from Lion Hill, on the Panama Railway. In the list of the birds of his collection 
allusion was made to the differences presented between them and typical examples of 
P. cyaneocapilla, but it was not then thought advisable to separate the Panama bird 
as was subsequently done by Count Berlepsch from specimens obtained in the State of 
Panama by the entomological collector Ribbe. 
Its range is limited to the State of Panama, as we have no record of its occurrence 
in Costa Rica; but southwards it spreads into the Cauca valley of Colombia. Nothing 
has been recorded of its habits. 
ce. Vertex albus. 
4, Pipra leucocilla. 
Pipra leucocilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 840’; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 93°; Salv. P.Z. 8S. 
1867, p. 149°; 1870, p. 200°; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 297°. 
Pipra coracina, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 29 °. 
Nitide nigerrima; capite toto summo et nucha niveis, rostro et pedibus nigricantibus. Long. tota 4, ale 3-3, 
caudee 1-1, rostri a rictu 0-5, tarsi 0-5. (Descr. maris ex Chitra, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
@ olivacea; subtus medialiter dilutior, gula et subalaribus grisescentibus. 
Hab. Panama, Cordillera de Tolé?, Chitra 4, Calovevora 4, Santa Fé (Arcé).—Sovutu 
AMERICA, Colombia and Guiana to Brazil 2. 
Adult males from our country are hardly so glossy as specimens from the south, but 
