Species of the Genus Pipra. 33 



Habitat. N.W.Brazil: S. Paulo d'Olivenca, R. Solimoens 

 (Spix coll.) ; Upper Rio Negro 1 (Wallace coll.); S. Pedro, 

 Cocuy, Marabitanas and Rio Icanna : Upper Rio Negro 2 

 (Natterer coll.); Rio Javarri 3 (Bates coll.). N.E. Peru: 

 Pebas 4 ; Rio Tigre (Hauxwell coll., in Mus. Berlepsch) ; 

 Loretoyacu 3 (Whitely coll.) ; Nauta (Hauxwell coll., Mus. 

 Tring). Eastern Ecuador : Quijos 5 ; RioNapo 7 ; Santiago 8 

 (Festa coll.) ; Sarayacu 9 (Buckley coll.). 



Typical locality. S. Paulo d'Olivenca, R. Solimoens. 



Types. Two male ad. in Zoolog. Mus. Univers. Monac. — 

 Spix coll. 



<J ad. (Nauta, N.E. Peru, 17 Nov., 1883; J. Hauxwell 

 coll.). — Forehead, crown, and occiput pale azure-blue, with 

 the bases of the feathers blackish, this light blue cap being 

 encircled by a narrow, darker, more ultramarine-blue border, 

 which is scarcely indicated in the supraloral region. Whole 

 body above and below dull brownish black with a slight 

 violet hue, strongest on the upper-tail-coverts. Axillaries 

 and under-wing-coverts dull brownish black. Bill blackish, 

 lower mandible pale brownish ; feet very dark horn-brown ; 

 iris red (Hauxwell, MS.). Wing 58^; tail 25 ; bill 8£ mm. 



$ ad. — Not distinguishable from that of P. velutina. 

 Upper-parts dark grass-green ; wings and tail-feathers dusky 

 with light green edges ; sides of the head dull greenish, lores 

 slightly more yellowish green. Chest and sides dull greenish, 

 throat-feathers yellowish grey with greenish tips ; middle 

 line of abdomen pale dirty yellowish. Axillaries and under- 



may be remarked that the quotation " Halm and Kiister " is not correct, 

 since, on the titlepage (at least of livraisons i.-xvi.) Ilahn alone figures 

 as the author. 



1 Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 18G7, p. 580. 



2 Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. ii. (1868) p. 128. 

 ' Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 265. 



' Scl. & Salv. P.Z. S. 1807, p. 978. 



5 Tacz. Orn. Perou, ii. (1884) p. 343. 



B Scl. P.Z. S. L854, p. 114. 



7 Allen, Bull. Amcr. Mus. N. fl. ii. (1889) p. 72. 



8 Salvador! & Festa, Boll. Mus. Torino, xiv. no. 362 (1889) p. 14. 

 * Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. (1888) p. 299. 



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