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šame genus, though the bill is slightly broader, and the tail is propor- 

 tionately rather longer, and has the rectrices more graduated, 



The only example I have seen of it was transmitted to me by 

 MM. Verreaux. 



In the markings of the lower part of the body it is not unlike 

 E. parulus, but the ground-colour is more yellowish, and the striae 

 less distinct on the throat and more marked on the breast. Above 

 these two species are easily distinguishable. The present has the 

 back brown, mixed with black blotches, and not uniform cinereous- 

 olive, and the crest is shorter and differently formed, the whole of 

 the head-feathers being moderately lengthened, not a few of the 

 centre feathers only, as in the older species. 



PlPRIN^. 



11. PiPRA CORACINA, Sp. nOV. 



Pipra leucocilla, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 152. 



Pipra coracina, J. et E. Verreaux, MS. 



S coracino-nigra: pileo nuchague albis: rostro nigrescenti-plumbeo: 

 pedibus nigris. į junr. viridescenti-cinereus, pcme unicolor, alis 

 caudague intus nigris. 



Long. totą 3-5, alae 2 '8, caudse 1'2. 



MM. Verreaux have transmitted to me an adult and young malė, 

 and their MS. description of this species of Manakin, which they 

 consider distinct from the well-known Pipra leucocilla, and I am 

 inclined to think they are right. The black colour is generally more 

 intense in the present bird, the white extends further back down the 

 head, the wings are longer, and the bill rather shorter. They remark 

 that the Peruvian bird (which I have not yet seen) appears to lie 

 the šame as this species.. 



FoRMICARIINiE. 



12. CoNOPOPHAGA cucuLLATA, sp. nov. (Plate CXIX.) 



c. supra brunnescenti-olivacea, alis caudague nigricantibus brun- 

 nescente marginatis : capite toto et cervice postica cum gula et 

 tectricum alarum marginibus clare rufo-castaneis : plaga pectorali 

 alba : abdomine dilute cinereo, ventre medio et hypochondriis roseo 

 aut rufescente tinctis : tectricibus subalaribus flavicanti-brunneis : 

 rostro ^avo: pedibus pallidis. 

 Long. totą 4*0, alae 2*7, caudae 1*1. 



The single specimen sent to me by MM. Verreaux is the only 

 example I have yet seen of this Conopophaga. It is not hkely to 

 be confounded with any other species of the genus that I am 

 acquainted with, its bright chestnut head and throat and white 

 pectoral patch rendering it eminently distinguishable. 



IcTERINjE. 



13. Sturnella ludoviciana (Linn.). 



A single bird transmitted by MM. Verreaux seems to beloDg to 



