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Genus PIPRITES Cab. 



Piprifes Cabanis. x\rcbiv fiir Naturg. xiii. part i. p. 23-i, 1847. Type 

 P. pileafus (Temm.). 



Fig. 101. — Piprites pileatus. 



The speeieo on wliich this genus Avas based are larger than the 

 average sized birds in the family Pipridse. The bill is sharply 

 hooked at the tip of the upper mandible; the depth immediately 

 behind the nostrils is equal to about half the length of the exposed 

 culmeu and about two-thirds the width of the bill. The wing is 

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

 the first is sliorter than the fifth but much lonoer than the sixth. 

 Tiie tail is slightly rounded and about three-fifths the length of 

 the wing. The hind toe and claw nearly equal in length to the 

 middle toe and claw.. Coloration : male and female similar. 



514. Piprites chlorion. 

 Green Manakin. 



Ilemipipo cJilorion Cab. Archiv filr Naturg. xiii. pt. i. p. 234, 1847 

 (Cayenne) ; id. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. (397, 1848. 



Piprifes chlorion Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1882, p. 78; Salvin, Ibis, 

 18S5, p. 299 (Bartica Grove, Merume Mts., Koraima, 3500 ft.) ; 

 Sclator, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xiv. p. 28o, 1888 (Roraima, Bartica 

 Grove, Merume Mts.) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 308, 

 no. 3152, 1912. 



Aihdt ? male. General colour above yellowish green, including 

 the fore part of the head, entire back, and lesser upper wing- 

 coverts ; hinder crown, nape, hinder face, sides of neck, breast, 

 and sides of body pale slate-grey; median upper wing-coverts 

 black with green margins, th(^ gieator series similar but inclining 

 to yellow at the tips, especially on the inner ones which are like the 

 innermost secondaries ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and fiight- 

 qnills black, more or less fririgod with green on the outer webs ; 

 the Hight-quills fringed with yellowish white on the inner webs ; 



