Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus anoPipracelesti-pileata 91 



Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus Goeldi (1^04). 



Male : Above and bcncath chestnut ; middlc and grea- 

 ter wing" coverts with black centres to the feathers. Crown, 

 chjn and fore part of cheeks black; tail black: quills black 

 with a brownish shade ; inner secondarics with chestnut 

 margins : quills and tail slightly glossed with mctallic green. 

 Legs and bill whitish, light-red in the living bird ; iris purple. 

 Female like the male. 



Total length: 21 cm. ; wing: 9 cm. ; tail: 7 cm. ; bill : ó cm. 

 Galbalcyrhynchus purusianus Goeldi very much resem- 

 bles G. leucotis, Des Murs, especially the íemale; but the 

 male never shows any trace of the white earspot. As the 

 Museu Goeldi possessos 17 specimens, 6 of which are adult 

 males, there is scarcely any doubt left about G. purusianus 

 being a well defined new species. 



Pipra caelesti-pileata Goeldi ( 1(^04). 



Male: Cap blue: upper surface dark green, gctting 

 brighter towards the rump: upper tail-coverts green: tail 

 brown strongly washed with green: upper wing coverts 

 green; quills blackish brown lined with green on the outer 

 half, the green linings getting broader on the inner seconda- 

 rics; edge of wing yellowish; front, chin and sides of face 

 very dark green, almost black; throat dark green getting 

 brighter on the lower throat, the colour shading into yel- 

 lowish green on the middle of the breast: abdómen yellow; 

 sides of breast and flanks green: under tail-coverts yellòw 

 with a slight greenish tinge; under wing-coverts green. Ali 

 the feathers have blackish bases which gives the green parts of 

 the body — except the rump— a more or less dusky ap pearance. 



Female : Whole upper surface green. much brighter 

 than in the male ; front and sides of hcad yellowish green : 

 chin and throat yellow; breast green shading into yellow; 

 abdómen and under tail-coverts yellow; flanks green: under 

 wing-coverts yellow ; the rest like the male. 



Total length: 10 cm.; wing: 6 cm.: tail: 3, 5 cm. 



2 Çfcf, 1 9. 

 The fourth known species of the small group of green Pipras. 



