FAMILY PIPRIDAE 



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CHIROXIPHIA LANCEOLATA (Wagler) : Lance-tailed Manakin, 



Toledo 



Figure 31 



Pipra lanccolata J. Wagler, Isis (of Oken), 1830, col. 931. (Cerro Turumiquire, 

 Sucre, Venezuela.) 



Small ; two central tail feathers with elongated, narrow, pointed 



tips ; male, black with blue back ; female green above, grayish below. 



Description. — Length 115-125 mm.; tibio-metatarsal joint bare; 



Figure 31. — Lance-tailed manakin, toledo, Chiroxiphia lanccolata, male. 



central pair of rectrices long and narrowly pointed. Adult male, 

 feathers of forehead short, stiffened, erect, extending forward to 

 base of nostril ; a flattened crest of red feathers growing from center 

 of crown; central rectrices elongated, finely acuminate, 11 to 16 mm 

 longer than the lateral pairs ; rest of head, neck, tail, wings, and 

 entire under surface, including the under wing coverts, black, varying 



