238 il/r. ViGORs's and Dr. Horsfield's Description of the 



Fœm. Capitis punctis fuhis. 



Pipra punctata. Lath. Ind. Orn. Siipp. p. Ivi no. 1. 

 Pardalote pointillé. Temm. P/. Col. 7B. J'ieill. Gal. des Ois. 

 pi. 73. 



We are informed by INIr. Calej% that " this species is called 

 Diamond Bird hy the settlers, from the spots on its body. By 

 them it is reckoned a valuable bird on account of its skin. It is 

 not very plentifull}^ to be met with. It inhabits both forest-land 

 and brushes ; at least I have seen it in both." 



Genus. Paciiycepiiala*. Stcriins. MSS. 



Rostrum forte, basi aliquantulum latum, culmine rotiindato, ar- 

 cuato ; mandibulii superiore emarginatâ ; naribus basalibus, 

 ovalibus, membranâ supra partim tectis, plumulis setisque 

 parce opertis ; rictu setis debilibus parce hirsuto. 



AlcE médiocres rotundata? ; remige prima brevi, secundâ et tertiâ 

 gradatim longioribus, quartâ et quintâ ferè œqualibus lon- 

 gissimis, sextâ paulo breviori, ca?teris gradatim decrescen- 

 tibus ; tertiœ quartœ et quinta? pogoniis externis in medio 

 paulo latioribus. 



Cauda mediocris, ferè œqualis, vix furcata. 



Pedes médiocres, subfortes ; acrotarsiis scutellatis, paratorsiis in- 

 teoris. 



Caput tumidiusculum. 



Although we have received no account of the habits of the 

 birds of this group, we consider the present family of Pipridce 

 to be that to which it bears the greatest athnity. The bill is 

 formed very much on the same model as that of the Linnean 

 Pipra, short, strong, rather wide at the base, and Avith an arched 

 and rounded cuhnen. In their general appearance some of the 



* nu')(yi crassus, and x;tf«>.)j caput. 



species 



