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12. HARPIPRION. 

 TT • • „. Type, 



llarpiprion, Maffler, Isis, 1832, p. 1232 11. cayennensis. 



Range. From Panama to Colombia, Ecuador, and British Guiana, 

 ranging southward to Southern Brazil. 



1. Harpiprion cayennensis. 



Courly vert de Cayenne, Dauhcnt. PI. Enl viii. pi. 820. 



Le Courlis des bois, Bi<ff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 43 (1781). 



Cayenne Ibis, Lat/i. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 107 (1785). 



Tantalus cayennensis, Gm.'Si/st. JVat. i. p. (>')2 (1788). 



Tantalus cayenensis, Laffi. Incl. Orn. ii. p. 704 (1790).' 



Ibis sylvatica, Vieill. Nouv. Did. iVHi^l. Xat. xvi p 16 (1817)- 



Neictuied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iv. p. 702 (1831: R. Itabapuanai 



Prov. Bahia ; Itahype ; R. Catole). 

 Ibis dentirostris, Wagl. Si/sf. Ac, Ibis, p. 370, sp. 7 (18-''7) 

 Ibis cayennensis, Less. Traite, p. o67 (1831) ; Cab. in Schomb. Rets. 



Guian. 111. p. 757 (1848); Burin. Th. Bras. iii. p. 423 (1856- 



Central and Northern Brazil) ; Reichen. J. / O. 1877 p 154 

 Harpiprion cayennensis, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1232; Schl. Mus 



Pays-Bas, Ibis, p. 8 (1863) ; Scl. Sc Salr. Nomencl. p. 127 (1873- 



Panama to Brazil) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 306 ; Taczan. Orn Perou 



111. p. 420(1886); Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 172 (Bartica Grove;' 



Oaiiiacusa). 

 Harpiprion cayanensis, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 117 (Chili) • Gray 



List Grail. Brit Mus. p. 92 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 155 (1855) [ 

 ^ Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 502. ^ y v ; . 



Geronticus cayanensis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 566 (1847). 

 Geronticus cayennensis. Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 40, no 102'>5 



(1871) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 307 (1871: Mattodentro ; Ypanema; 



Irisan-a ; Cuyaba ; Caifara) ; id. Ibis, 1873, p. 39. 



Adrdt male. General colour above dark bronzy grass-green, in- 

 cluding the lesser and median wing-coverts ; rump and upper 'tail- 

 coverts like the back, the latter slightly glossed with steel-blue ; 

 tail steel-blue, with purple and greenish reflections ; greater coverts' 

 primary-coverts, and quills black, externally purple or purplish blue 

 with a slight bronzy appearance, the inner secondaries dark green ; 

 torehead and fore part of crown, sides of face, cheeks, and throat 

 dusky slate-colour ; the chin and fore part of malar region, the 

 hinder crown and hind neck spangled with glossy green, with rosy 

 purple reflections ; the sides of the neck also spangled in the same 

 manner, but much less distinctly ; under surface of the body 

 blackish, with a gloss of dark olive-green ; the under tail-coverts 

 glossy grass-green ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries black, glossed 

 with purple, the under surface of the quills glossed with steel-green 

 and purple : " bill, lores, and naked part of face greenish grey ; the 

 hinder part of face lead-colour, in very old birds bluish • ' feet 

 greenish grey, but paler than the bill ; iris brown " (Burmeister) 

 iotal length 22 inches, culmen 4-9, wing 4-8, tail 6-2, tarsus 2-3. 

 -Hab. The same as that of the genus. 



«. Ad. sk. South America. Major-Gen. Hardwicke. 



f>. Ad. St. British Guiana. Sir R. Schomburgk [C.]. 



