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Family PIPRID.E. 



This family consists of twenty genera and, at the time that 

 Brabonrne and Cliubb published their ' List of the Birds of South 

 America,' about ninety species. Ten of the genera and about 

 sixteen of the species are represented in British Guiana. 



Genus PIPRA Linn. 



Fijira Linn. Mus. Add. Fred. Prodr. ii. p. 32, 1764^. Type P. aureola 

 (Linn.). 



Fig. 99. — Pipra aureola. 



The species included in this genus are birds of small size with 



bright plumages of varied colours. The bill is slightly hooked at 



the tip of the upper mandible, the depth of the bill, at the base of 



the feathers on the culmen, is about half its width and the width 



about four-fifths the length of the exposed culmen. The wing is 



rounded, the third and fourth primaries longest and equal, the 



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



sixth. Tail short and square at the tip. Tarsus about one-third 



longer than the exposed culmen. Hind toe and claw about equal 



in length to the inner toe and claw. Coloration : nuile and female 



entirely different. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Throat red ; crown of head and nape 



also red ; upper tail-coverts l)lack ... P. aureola, p. 2-i2. 

 J J. Tliroat black. 



h. Crown of head and nape orange ; 



upper tail-coverts black P. eri/throcephala, p. 245. 



c. Crown of head and nape white ; upper 



tail-coverts black P. leucocilla, p. 2-i6. 



d. Crown of head white ; nape l)la(;k ; 



upper tail-coverts blue P. suavissima, p. 247. 



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