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broadly edged with green ; tail black, tipped with yellowish white : 

 beneath yellowish green, with dark greenish or blackish edgings to 

 the feathers ; throat and crissum yellowish ; bill dark plumbeous : feet 

 reddish brown : whole length 7 inches, wing 3 - 8, tail 2-4. Female 

 similar, but head green like the back. 



Hah. Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. 



The spotted upper surface, yellowish throat, and short tail dis- 

 tinguish this species from its allies. 



a, b. 2 a d- sk. Pallatanga, Ecuador (Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



c, d. J ad. sk. Intac, Ecuador {Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e, f. 6 9 ad. sk. Frontino, Antioquia, U. S. C. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Salmon). 



g. J ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



/*. cf ad. st. Bogota. Purchased. 



15. PIPREOLA*. „ 



Type. 

 Pipreola, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 357 (1838) .... P. chlorolepidota. 

 Euchlornis, De Filippi, Mus. Medial., An. Vert. 



cl. ii. p. 31 (1847) P. riefferi. 



Pyrrhorhynehus, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 103 P. viridis. 



Pyrorhynchus, Bp. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 5 (1854) . P. viridis. 

 Euehlorornis, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 103 



(1859) P. riefferi. 



After AmpeKon comes very naturally the splendid genus Pipreola, 

 also generally clad in bright green colours, but beautifully adorned, in 

 the male sex, with patches of scarlet, orange, and yellow. Pipreola is 

 a feebler form than Ampelion, with smaller beak and shorter tarsi. 

 It extends all over Amazonia, Guiana, Venezuela, and Colombia, but 

 is not met with in the S.E. Brazilian subregion, nor anywhere north 

 of Panama. 



Key to the Species. 



A. General plumage bright green : no super- 

 ciliary stripe. 

 a'. Externa] secondaries with white ends. 



a". Throat dark green 1. riefferi, p. 377. 



b". Throat black ; no red on breast : 



j tail-end green 2. melanoleema, p, 377. 



I tail-end white 8. riridis, p. 378. 



c". Throat black ; breast red 4. for/nosa, p. 378. 



d". Throat blood-red. 



J Larger : breast yellow 5. frontalis, p. 379. 



I Smaller : breast green 6. sclateri, p. 379. 



* It is not yet certain to which species should be referred : — 



Pipreola chlorolepidota, Sw. An. in Menag. p. 357 (1838) ; Scl, P. Z. S 1854, 



p. 1 13 (Quijos), 1859, p. 441 (Eio Napo) ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 254 ; id. Ibis, 1878, 



p. 173; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 58. 



But there can be lit I lo doubt that it was based upon a female of one of the 



group. Unfortunately the typical specimen is lost. 



