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Key to the Species and Subspecies of Pipromorpha. 



A. Tertiaries (and wing-coverts) without pale terminal margins. 



a. Head grayish all around Pipromorpha rufiventris. 



a'. Head greenish above (Pipromorpha macconnelli) . 

 b. Posterior under parts paler, more buffy. 

 c. Below brighter, more rufescent. 



Pipromorpha m/icconnelli amazona. 

 c'. Below duller, more buffy. 



Pipromorpha macconnelli macconnelli. 

 b'. Posterior under parts brighter, yellow ocher. 



Pipromorpha macconnelli roraimae. 

 A'. Tertiaries with conspicuous paler terminal margins. 



a. Wing-coverts tipped with buffy; no grayish shade on throat 

 {Pipromorpha oleaginea). 

 b. Throat shaded with ochraceous, almost uniform with rest of 



under surface Pipromorpha oleaginea oleaginea. 



h'. Throat more or less shaded with greenish, contrasting with rest 

 of under surface, 

 c. Below richer, more rufescent. 



d. Coloration deeper ; abdomen yellow ocher ; breast citrine 



Pipromorpha oleaginea chloronota. 

 d'. Coloration paler; abdomen nearer antimony yellow; 

 breast more buffy. 

 e. Darker (especially the upper tail-coverts and tail) 



Pipromorpha oleaginea pallidiventris. 

 e'. Paler (especially the upper tail-coverts and tail) 



Pipromorpha oleaginea parca. 



c'. Below paler, more buffy Pipromorpha oleaginea pacifica. 



a'. Wing-coverts without buffy tips; chin and upper throat shaded 

 with grayish {Pipromorpha assimilis). 



h. Darker and duller Pipromorpha assimilis dyscola. 



W. Lighter and brighter.. Pipromorpha assimilis assimilis. 



Pipromorpha rufiventris (Cabanis). 



Mionectes rufiventris Cabanis, in Tschudi. Fauna Peruana, Aves, 1845, 148, 

 note (Brazil; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Berlin Mus.; ex Muscicapa rufi- 

 ventris Lichtenstein, MS.). — Cabanis, Arch. f. Naturg., 1847, 251 (ref. 

 orig. descr.). — Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Thiere Bras., II, 1856, 482 

 (southern Brazil; descr.). — (?)Burmeister, Reise La Plata-Staaten, II, 

 1861, 453 (Tucumdn, Argentina; references). — von Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 

 ii, 1869, 104 (Rio Janeiro, Registo do Sai, Ypanema, and Curytiba, 

 Brazil). — von Pelzeln, Nunquam Otiosus, II, 1872, 292 (Neu Freiburg, 

 Brazil). — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Avium Neotrop., 1873, 47 (range). 

 — GiEBEL, Thes. Orn., II, 1875, 596 (ref. orig. descr.). — von Berlepsch 

 and von Ihering, Zeits. ges. Orn., II, 1885, 131 (Taquara do Mundo 

 Novo, Brazil).— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 114 (Cury- 

 tiba and Pelotas, Brazil; descr.; references). — Salvin and Godman, 



