the Species of the Genus Pipreola. 169 



This beautiful species is, I believe, quite peculiar to the 

 forests of Venezuela, where Hr. Goering obtained specimens 

 on the Montaria of Tereven, near Caripe, and in the vicinity 

 of Caracas. It is easily recognized by its black throat and 

 splendid scarlet breast, which passes into the brilliant yellow 

 of the belly. The iris is described by Goering as reddish 

 brown. 



5. Pipreola frontalis. (Plate VI.) 

 Euchlornis frontalis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p, 447, et Ann. & 

 Mag. N. H. ser. 3, vol. iii. p. 443. 



Supra viridis^ fronte angusta nigricante : secundariis externis 

 albo terminatis : subtiis fiava, gula et pectore toto satu- 

 rate sanguineo-rubris, lateribus et ciisso viridi mixtis : 

 rostro rubro, pedibus flavis, unguibus nigris : long, tota 

 5'7, alae 3*4, caudse 2*75. Fern, fronte angusta flavi- 

 cante, et corpore subtiis viridi, gula solum flava rubro 

 perfusa, et ventre flavicanti mixto diversa. 

 Hab. Bolivia, Tilotilo Yungas [Buchley). 

 Mus. S.-G. 



I am indebted to Messrs. Salvin and Godman for the privi- 

 lege of describing and figuring both sexes of this splendid 

 species, which I established in 1858 from a single female spe- 

 cimen belonging to the Derby Museum. 



The bird is a near ally of P. sclateri, but is at once recog- 

 nizable as distinct by the yellow overspreading the belly, 

 by the greater extent of the scarlet neck, and by its much 

 larger size. 



Besides the pair above referred to, which were obtained by 

 Mr. Buckley in Bolivia, there is a fine male of this species in 

 the Museum of Brussels, for an opportunity of examining 

 which I am greatly indebted to M. Alphonse Dubois and to 

 the authorities of that Institution,. I am informed that there 

 are likewise examples of this bird in the Leiden Museum^ 

 and in the collection of Count H. Turati at Milan. 



The original specimen of my Euchlornis frontalis, for the 

 opportunity of reexamining which I am much indebted to the 

 courtesy of Mr. T. Moore, curator of the Derby Museum, 

 liiverpool, is so similar to the female figured, that there can 



