82 nous PIPRA. 



wings are large, broad, and rounded ; the quills nineteen ; the 

 first very small, the fourth longest, the fifth next, the third 

 longer than the sixth, the second nearly as long as the seventh ; 

 the secondaries broad, rounded, and incurvate. The tail is of 

 ordinary length, much rounded or cuneate, of ten feathers, 

 having very strong shafts, which are decurvate at the end, ex- 

 cepting the lateral, and worn to a double point, the barbs ex- 

 tending beyond the end of the shaft ; besides which there is 

 on each side a very small incumbent soft rounded feather. 



The bill is dark purplish-grey, darker at the end, the lower 

 mandible paler. The feet and claws dusky-grey. The upper 

 part of the head is glossy bluish-black, with a scarlet band on 

 the occiput. The forehead, and a broad band under the eye, 

 including the ear-coverts, with a narrow line over it, white, 

 the former tinged with brown, the latter with yellow ; there 

 is a roundish patch of the same colour on the side of the neck, 

 and an oblong one on the scapular region. The fore-neck, 

 breast, and sides are brownish-white. A bluish-black band 

 proceeds from the lower mandible down the side of the neck, 

 and joins a patch of the same at its lower part. The hind- 

 neck, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts are bluish-black, the 

 former mottled with white. The wings are brownish -black ; 

 the inner secondary coverts white ; there are, speaking gene- 

 rally, four bands of white spots on the outer and inner webs 

 of the quills, some of the longer primaries having a spot more 

 on the outer, and two less on the inner web, and the inner 

 secondaries unspotted, but with a white tip ; the first quill 

 also is without spots, but is white towards the base on the 

 inner web ; the second has only two spots on the outer, and 

 three on the inner web. The four middle tail-feathers are 

 black ; the two next are black at the base, but white with 

 two black bands in the rest of their extent ; the lateral feathers 

 white in their distal half, with two black bars ; the small in- 

 cumbent feathers black. The abdomen and lower tail-coverts 

 are vermilion. 



Length to end of tail 9f inches ; extent of wings 17 ; wing 

 from flexure 5^ ; tail 3f ; bill along the ridge l/g, along the 

 edge of lower mandible If^g ; tarsus 1 ; first toe f-^j, its claw 



