the Species of the Genus Pipreola. 165 



rhynchus, from the red colour of their bills. Very shortly 

 afterwards Dr. Hartlaub adopted the term as generic, and 

 took the opportunity of giving ^ list of the five species of 

 the group known to him, when figuring a recently described 

 addition which he had made to it'^. 



In his ' Conspectus ' (1854) Bonaparte adopted Lafres- 

 naye's genus and Hartlaub^s list of species ; but a few years 

 later Cabanis and Heine, in the second part of the 'Mu- 

 seum Heineanum/ came to the conclusion that, as regards 

 the generic term Pyrrhorhynchus , Lafresnaye had been anti- 

 cipated by De Filippi, who, in 1847 1, had proposed to use the 

 term Euchlornis for the same group. This terra Cabanis 

 and Heine emended into Euchlorornis , supposing the deri- 

 vation of it to be ev, 'xXwpo'i, and opvt? . 



But both these generic appellations must, I think, give 

 way to Pipreola of Swainson, established in 1838 for the 

 reception of his P. chlorolepidota. Unfortunately Swainson^s 

 type is not to be found at Cambridge, and I have not been 

 able to ascertain that it exists in any collection. But there 

 can be no reasonable doubt, I think, that the bird which he 

 described under this name was a female of one of the species 

 of this group J, and that the term Pipreola, having been pro- 

 perly defined, ought to be used for the genus. 



The synonymy of the genus Pipreola will therefore stand 

 as follows : — 



(1838) Pipreola, Sw. An. in Men. p. 357. Type P. chloro- 

 lepidota. 



(1847) Euchlornis, Filippi, Mus. Mediol. An. Vert. cl. ii. 

 p. 31. Type P. riefferi. 



* " Note monographique siir le sous-genre Pi/rrhorhynchtts," Rev. Zool. 

 1849, p. 493. 



t Museum Mediolanense, Animalia Vertebrata, Classis ii. Aves, p. 31. 

 Cf. Cornalia, Rev. Zool. 1853, p. 105. I am much indebted to Dr. Cornalia 

 for sending me a copy of De Filippi's tract, in the appendix to which 

 several other new genera and species are characterized. 



X The skin which I formerly referred to P. chlorolepidota seems to be a 

 female of P. formosa, or of a nearly allied species. But, from its size and 

 locality, P. chlorolepidota of Swainson is more likely to be a female of P; 

 sclateri. (See remarks below, p. 173.) 



