28 Mr. C. E. Hellmayr on the 



longer, and the slaty grey of the head rather paler and ex- 

 tended over the whole nape. Wing 70; tail 36 ; bill 10 mm. 

 The descriptions and measurements are taken from the 

 types in Count Berlepsch's collection and a topotype in the 

 Tring Museum. 



8. Pipra ISIDORII. 



Pipra isidorei Sclater, Rev. Zool. 1852, p. 9, descr. orig. £ 

 [Bogota coll., Mus. Paris] . 



Pipra isidori Sclater, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 114 [Quijos, E. 

 Ecuador] ; id. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 152 [Bogota coll.] ; id. Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. (1888) p. 298 [Bogota coll. and Sarayacu, 

 E. Ecuador]; Goodfellow, Ibis, 1901, p. 708 [Baeza, E. 

 Ecuador]. 



Habitat. Colombia: Bogota coll. East Ecuador : Quijos 

 (fide Sclater). Sarayacu (C. Buckley coll., in Mus. Brit.) ; 

 Baeza (Goodfellow & Hamilton coll., Mus. Tring). 



Typical locality. Bogota (trade-collections). 



Type. (J ad. in Mus. Paris ex Lewy. 



<$ ad. (Bogota coll., Mus. Tring). — Top of the head 

 covered with somewhat elongated, lamelliform milky- white 

 feathers, which are blackish grey at the extreme base ; 

 on the posterior margin of the white cap a very narrow 

 pale bluish border. Rump and upper-tail-coverts beautiful 

 pale azure-blue, the bases of the feathers black. Lores, 

 auriculars, sides of the neck, back, wings, and tail dull 

 velvety black ; under-surface rather duller, more brownish 

 black ; throat and under-tail-coverts with a slight bluish 

 hue. Axillaries and under-wing-coverts blackish brown. 

 Bill blackish, lower mandible dull whitish or pale brownish ; 

 feet dark horn-brown. Tail square. 



Twenty-two specimens from Bogota and East Ecuador 

 measure : wing 49-52 : tail 22-24; bill 8-9 mm. 



? ad. — Above dark grass-green ; cap decidedly paler, 

 about oil-green, and passing into yellowish green on the 

 forehead. Wing- and tail-feathers dark brown, edged with 

 the colour of the crown. Lores yellowish green, auriculars 

 and sides of the neck green like the back. Throat, chest, 



