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 87. Pipra fasciicauda fasciicauda llellra. 



ripra fnsciula (nee Thunberg 1822) Lafresnaye & D'Oibigny, Syn. Av. i. in Mug. Zoo!. 1837. cl. ii. 



p. 38 (YiiracaruB, East Bolivia). 

 Pipra fusfiirauila (nom. emend.) Hellmayr, Ihis 1906. p. 9. 



No. lOGO. c? ad., Faz. EsperanQa, December 1 On.").— Wing 05; tail 31 ; bill 

 lOi mm. 



No. 1701. S jnv. (in the garb of the female), Faz. Esperanca, Jannary lOnO. 



No. 1606 is perfectly identical with other adnlt males from the Rio Jordao 

 (Minas Geraos), northern S. Panic (Rio Parauii, Rio Paranapanema), Mattogrosso 

 (Villa Maria, Engenho do Gama), Itaitnba on the Rio Tapajoz, and with 

 D'Orbigny's type from Eastern Bolivia, in the Paris Museum. All these 

 specimens have a broad yellowish white band across both webs of all the 

 rectrices ; the feathers of the throat are as a rule slightly tipped with red ; 

 tlie under tail-coverts show a very narrow black terminal band. 



Specimens from the npper Rio Pnrus, N.W. Brazil, from the Hio Ucayali, Eastern 

 Peru, and from Chnchurras, province Hniinuco, Central Peru, differ by having the 

 throat pure yellow, without red tips, the black terminal bantls to the nnder 

 tail-coverts wider, and by the markings of the tail feathers. The central pair 

 is wholly black, the two or three following ones are likewise black, but with 

 a more or less developed white patch near the base of the inner web, the remaining 

 rectrices are coloured {i.e. banded on both webs) as in P. f. fasciicauda. This 

 western form has been separated by Miss Snethlage * as Pipra fasciicauda 

 ]>unisiana. When I wrote my synopsis of the genus Pipra I had three adnlt 

 males from Chuchnrras before me, but overlooked the dirterence in the markings 

 of the tail. The range of the two races is thus as follows : 



n. P . fasciicauda fasciicauda Hellm. 



Eastern Bolivia : Yuracarcs, Guarayos, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra 

 (D'Orbigny), Falls of the Rio Madeira (Rusby). Central Brazil, Mattogrosso : 

 Villa Maria, Engenho do Gama, R. Guaport?, Villa Bella de Mattogrosso, Sao 

 Vicente (Natterer), Chapada (Smith). Goyaz : City of Goyaz (Natterer), Faz. 

 Esperan(ja (Baer). Northern S. Paulo : Rio Parana (Natterer), Faz. Cayou (near 

 the Salto Grande), Rio Paranapanema (Hemi)el). Minas Geraes : Rio Jordao, 

 prov. Araguay (A. Robert). North Brazil : Rio Tocantins (Wallace), Itaitnba on 

 the R. Tapajoz (Hoffmanns). 



b. P. fasciicauda purusiana Snethlage. 



Orn. Monhn-. xv. p. It'iO (1907— Ponto Alegre, Rio Purus, N.W. Brazil). 



P.fusciimmla Hellmayr, Ihix, 19lJ(5. p. 9 (part. East Peru : Ucayali ; Central Peru : Chucliurras). 

 P.fascmta (nee Lafr. & D'Orb.) Sclater & Salvin, P. Z.S. Lmiil. 1873. p. 282 (Ucayali) ; Sclater, 

 Oit. ISinh Brit. Mils. .xiv. 1888. p. 294 (part.: .spec, e, f, ex Peru). 



N.W. Brazil : Ponto Alegre and Bom Lugar, Rio PurAs (Mus. Pard). 

 Eastern Peru : Ucayali (Bartlett). Central Peru : Chuchnrras, province 

 Hnanuco (Hoffmanns). 



* Om. Monber. xv. Oct. 1907, p. IGO (type from Tonto Alegre, Kio I'lirus). I am greatly indebted to 

 Miss Suethliige for the loan of the type specimens. 



