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and foreneck fire clear yellow, with, however, sli;,4it pale rod tips to the leathers ; 

 there is usnally a little more crimson on the ear-coverts, and the yellow of the 

 forehead is less pnre as well as less extended than in P. a. Jlavicollis. AVing 

 0:U— 00 ; tail 28—32 mm. 



Obs. In a considerable series the characters as given above are quite constant. 

 The abdomen is invariably clear yellow, without any red, and decidedly contrasted 

 with the crimson breast ; the under tail-coverts are likewise yellow narrowly ti{)j)ed 

 or edged with dull black ; all of tlie rectrices show a broad whitish orycdlowisli band 

 across both webs. The feathers of the throat and foreneck are more or loss 

 consi)icnoasly, though slightly, tipped with pale red. As stated above (j). o03) the 

 birds from Itaituba and Maruins are perfectly similar to topotypical specimens from 

 Eastern Bolivia. 



Examined : 4 cJcJad., Faz. Cayoa, Salto Grande, Rio Paranapanema, 3 JcJ ad., 

 Chapada, Mattogrosso, 1 S ad., Eagenho do Gama, llio Gnapore, 2 cJc? ail., 

 Maruins, all in the Munich Museum ; 1 i ad., Faz. Cayoa, % iS ad., Rio Jordan, 

 Paranahyba (Araguary), 1 S vi.K ad., Itaituba, in the Tring Museum ; 5 c? J ad. 

 from Engenho do Gama, Villa Bella de Mattogrosso, Villa Maria, Rio Parana, and 

 Goiaz, in the Vienna Mnsenm ; 1 $ ad., Gnarayos, E. Bolivia, tijpe of spp.cka, in 

 the Paris Museum ; 2 c? cJ ad., San Mateo, Bolivia, in Mus. H. v. Berlepsch. 



N.B. — I have not seen examples from the Tocantius, where both Wallace * and 

 Snethlage f met with the species. 



(d) Pipra aureola punisiana Snethlage. 



P. fiixciicauda purmiana Saethlage, Orn. Monher. xv. p. IGO (1907. — Ponto Alegre, Rio Puriis). 



Hab. W. Brazil : Bom Lngar, Ponto Alegre, Monte Verde on the Rio Puriis. 

 Eastern Peru : Ucayali (Bartlett). Central Peru : Chuchurras, Huanuco 

 (Hotfmanns). 



c? ad. Agrees with P. a.fasciicauda in the clear yellow abdomen withont any 

 black or red, but differs at a glance by having the central rectrices uniform black 

 and the black tips to the under tail-coverts much wider. The yellow of the throat 

 and foreneck is bright 3'ellow without red tips, like P. a.JtavicoUis, while the front 

 and sides of the head are more like P. a.fasciicauda. 



Five adult males from the Rio Pnrus (incl. the tyiie) measure : wing 04—03; 

 tail 20—29 mm. 



Five adult males from Peru (Ucayali, Chuchurras) measure : wing 03 — 04 ; 

 tail 28—30 mm. 



()b». In specimens from the I'un'is tlip two or four median rectrices are 

 nuifbrm black, the two or three outer pairs are banded with white (or yellowish) on 

 both webs, while the intervening ones have a white patch near the base of the inner 

 web. In Peruvian skins the six median rectrices arc without any white, other- 

 wise they agree with the Brazilian ones. 



(«) Pipra aureola calamae Hellm. 



Jl'ib. Brazil, right bank of the Rio Madeira : Calama, Allianca, iSao Isabel. 

 cJ ad. Agrees with Pnri'is specimens of P. a. purusiana in the markings of the 

 tail, but has the whole anterior portion of the crown orange-yellow, the breast 



• Sclater & Calvin, /'. Z. S. ISfiT. p. 579 : P.faxciata. 

 t Snethlage, .Tuun.f. Orn. 11108. p. 528: P./ancHcauila, 



