438 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON PERUVIAN BIRDS. [June 24, 
some confidence, able to describe as new. ‘These are, first, a new 
Tanager of the genus Huphonia, which we propose to call 
EuPHONIA CHRYSOPASTA, Sp. nov. (Plate XXX. figs. 1 & 2.) 
Supra eneo-viridis, in fronte et uropygio paulo magis splendens, 
in pileo summo obscurior: alis caudaque nigricantibus @neo 
limbatis: subtus medialiter lete flava, lateraliter viridi as- 
persa; tectricibus subalaribus, remigum marginibus internis, 
et tibiis albis: rostro obscure plumbeo, pedibus fuscis : long. 
tota 4°3, ale 2°3, caude 1'5. 
2. Supra mari similis, subtus medialiter grisescentt-alba, crisso © 
flavo. 
Hab. in Peruvia orient. in ripis fl. Ucayali (Bartlett); et in ripis 
fl. Napo, reipubl. Aiquatorialis. 
Mr. Bartlett obtained three male examples of this Tanager—two 
on the Upper Ucayali (in June 1865), and one on the lower part of 
the same river. Sclater’s collection contains a pair of the same 
species, obtained from the Rio Napo through M. Verreaux some 
years since, but which have remained hitherto undetermined. 
This Euphonia is a well marked form, and does not very closely 
resemble any other described species. The change of the under 
surface from yellow in the male to greyish white in the female is 
repeated in Z. chalybea and E. wanthogastra. 
The second bird is a small Piprine form, allied to the rufous spe- 
cies of Heteropelma, which Herr v. Pelzeln has lately described as 
H. rufum*, but much more diminutive in size, being scarcely larger 
in bulk than a typical Pipra, although its tail is relatively much 
longer. In the shape of the bill, however, as in general structure, 
this bird comes nearer to Heteropelma than to Pipra. The wings 
reach to about the middle of the tail, the third remex being scarcely 
longer than the second and fourth, the first rather shorter than the 
fifth. The tail is nearly square at the end, the external rectrices 
being very little shorter than the medial. The feet are small and 
slender; the tarsus divided in front into five or six scutes, and 
covered behind with minute, almost obsolete, reticulations. The 
three anterior digits are closely united together, the cohesion between 
them extending up to, if not rather beyond, the commencement of 
the terminal digits. The general colour is rufous, with a cinereous 
cap ornamented by a half-concealed vertical stripe, as in Heterocer- 
cust. In the male this stripe is of a lemon-yellow; in the female 
and young male red, We propose to call this bird 
NEOPIPO RUBICUNDA, sp. et gen. nov. (Plate XXX. fig. 3.) 
Rufa; subtus, precipue in gula, dilutior: pileo cinerascente, striga 
* Orn. Bras. p. 185, We believe this bird to be the same as Schiffornis major, 
Bp., described and figured by Des Murs in Castelnau’s Voyage, Ois. p. 66, 
t. xviii. f. 2. 
+ Herr v. Pelzeln has separated his Heterocercus flavivertex from H. linteatus, 
as having the vertical spot yellow and no black on the head (Orn. Bras. p. 186). 
But Strickland’s figure of H. linteatus, fem. (Contr. Orn. 1850, pl. 63), exactly 
agrees with one of Natterer’s type specimens of H. flaviverter ; and we are by no 
means satisfied that the two birds are distinct. 
