92 TANAGEIDJE. 



subspecies. Pipridea ranges from Venezuela into Paraguay, and is 

 also found in Western Ecuador and Peru. If M. Stolzmann's account 

 of its internal anatomy is correct (//. Tacz. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 226), 

 Pipridea may have to be removed to the Eiqjhoniina'. 



1. Pipridea melanonota. 



Pico de pimzon azul y canela, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 413. 



Tauagra melanonota, Vicill. Nouv. Diet, xxxii. p. 407. 



Tanagra melauotha, Vieill. Enc. Mcth. p. 773. 



Tanagi-a vittata, Temm. PI. Col. 48. 



Piprteidea cyanea, 8iu. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 174 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 231. 



Aglaia vittata, Danu. Voy. Beayle, Zool. iii. p. 98. 



Calliste vittata, Gray, Gen. B. p. 306 ; Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 7. 



Procnopis melanota, Bp. Conipt. Mend, xxxii. p. 80 ; id. Rev. Zool. 



p. 134 ; id. Note s. I. Tany. p. 8. 

 Calliste melanonota, Sclater, Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 60. 

 Pipridea melanonota, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 265 ; id. Syn. Av. Tan. 



p. 91 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 61 ; Sclat. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 598 ; iid. 



Nomencl. p. 18 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 226, 1882, p. 10 (Peru). 

 Pipridea venezuelensis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 265, 1860, p. 63; id. 



Syn. Av. Tan. p. 91 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 61 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 780 ; TFyatf, Ibis, 1871, p. 325 (Colombia). 

 Pipridea melanonota venezuelensis, Tacz. et Berl. P. Z. S. 1884, 



p. 289 ; Tacz. Orn. Per. ii. 450. 



Above violaceous blue ; whole interscapular region darker, blackish ; 

 wings and tail black, edged with blue ; narrow front, lores, and 

 sides of the head deep velvety black, well defined : body beneath 

 and under wing- coverts clear ochraceous ; under surfaces of wings 

 and tail blackish ; bill black ; feet brown : whole length 5"8 inches, 

 wing 3"1, tail 2'2 Female. Above dark brown, tinged with blue 

 on the head and rump ; below like the male. 



Hah. Paraguay, S.E. Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Vene- 

 zuela. 



The diffei'ences upon which I established P. venezuelensis in 1856 

 do not seem to be constant in the same locality. 



a. Subsp. typica. 



a. (S ad. st. Brazil. J. Gould, Esq. 



h-d. S ad.sk.; Bahia, Brazil ( W«c/(erf/'). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. 5 ad. sk. 



/. cj ad. sk. Rio Claro, Goyaz, Brazil Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Joyner). 



y. 5 ad. sk. Pelotas, Bio Grande do Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sul, Brazil (Joyner). 



h, i. cJ 2 ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



j. (5 ad. sk. Tilotilo, Bolivia (Buckley). Sclater Coll. 



k. (S ad. sk. Bolivia (Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Subsp. venezudensis. 



a. (S ad. sk. Caracas, Venezuela (Salle). Sclater Coll. 



I, c. (5 ad. sk. lutaj, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



