238 Mr.V160ns's and Dr. HonsrrELD's Description of the 
Fom. Capitis punctis fulvis. 
Pipra punctata. Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p.lvi mo. 1. 
Pardalote pointillé. Temm. Pl. Col. 18. Vieill. Gal. des Ois. 
pl. 73. 
We are informed by Mr. Caley, that “ this species is called 
Diamond Bird by the settlers, from the spots on its body. By 
them it is reckoned a valuable bird on account of its skin. It is 
not very plentifully to be met with. It inhabits both ete ag 
and brushes ; at least I have seen it in both.” 
| Genus. PACHYCEPHALA*. Swains. MSS. 
Rostrum forte, basi aliquantulum latum, culmine rotundato, ar- 
cuato ; mandibuld superiore emarginata ; naribus basalibus, 
ovalibus, membrana supra partim tectis, plumulis setisque 
parce opertis; rictu setis debilibus parcè hirsuto. 
Ale mediocres rotundatæ ; remige primá brevi, secundá et tertiá 
gradatim longioribus, quartá et quintá ferè æqualibus lon- 
gissimis, sextà pauló breviori, cæteris gradatim decrescen- 
tibus; tertiæ quarte et quintae pogona externis in medio 
pauló latioribus. 
Cauda mediocris, ferè æqualis, vix furcata. 
Pedes mediocres, subfortes ; acrotarsiis scutellatis, paratorisis | in- 
tegris. 
Caput tumidiusculum. 
Although we have received no account of the habits of the 
birds of this group, we consider the present family of Pipride 
to be that to which it bears the greatest affinity. "The bill is 
formed very much on the same model as that of the Linnean 
Pipra, short, strong, rather wide at the base, and with an arched 
and rounded culmen. In their general appearance some of the 
* IIoxvs crassus, and xedaAM caput. 
| species 
