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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Genus PIPEOMORPHA Bonap. 



Pipromnrphft Bonaparte (ex SchifE. MS.), Ann. d. Sci. Nat. Zoul. i. 

 p. 134.', 1854. Type P. oleaglnea (Liclit.). 



Fig. 71. — T'ipro)aorplia oleaginea. 



The species on wliich this genus was founded are birds of 

 mediuni size with scarcely any rictal bristles. The bill is narrow, 

 the width being less than halt the length of the ex])osed culmen. 

 The wing is rounded, the outer primary-quills narrowed at the 

 tips, especially the outermost, and slightly recurving outuarcis, 

 the second to the fifth longest and equal, the first about equal in 

 length to the sixth. The tail is S([uarc at the ti}), the feathers are 

 i)roa(i, and about five-sevenths the length of the wing. The 

 hind toe and claw are about equal in length to that of the middle 

 toe and claw. Coloration: male and female similar. 



Ki'ii to the Subspecies. 



A. Larger, wing more than 04 mm. ; back 



dark green; abdomen ochraceous rufous. P. o. macconnelli, p. 170. 



B. Smaller, wing less than 64 mm. ; back 



paler green ; abdomen orange rufous... P. o. roraima;, p. 172. 



462. Pipromorplia oleaginea macconnelli. 

 McConnell's Oily Flycatcher. 



Mionectes oleagineas (nee Lielit.) Cab. in Seliumb. lleis. Guian. iii. p. 702, 

 1S4S ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 293 (part) (Bartiea Grove and Cama- 

 cusa); Selater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 112 (part), 18S8 

 (Camacusa, Bartiea Grove, Cavenne) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. 

 Aiuer, i. p. 284, no. 2892, 1912. 



3Iiouectt's oleagiiieits oleagineas Beebe, Trop. Wild Life Brit. Guian. 

 p. 223, 1917. 



Ptproiaorplia oleaginea macconnelli Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Xat. Hist, 

 (ser. 9) iv. p. 303, Oct. 1919. 



Adult. General colour above dull dark "reen includiiiii- the 



