170 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Genus PIPEOMORPHA Bonap. 



Pipromorplia. Bonaparte (ex ScMfE. MS.), Ann. d. Sci. Nat. Zool. i. 

 p. 134, 1854. Type P. oleaginea (Licht.). 



Fig. 71. — PipromorpJia oleaginea. 



The species on which this genus was founded are birds of 

 medium size with scarcely any rictal bristles^ The bill is narrow, 

 the width being less than half the length of the exposed culmen. 

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

 ti[)S, especially the outermost, and slightly recurving outwards, 

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

 length to the sixth. The tail is square at the tip, the feathers are 

 broad, 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. 



Key to the- Subspecies. 



A. Larger, wing more than 64 mm. ; back 



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



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



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



462. Pipromorplia oleaginea macconnelli. 



MoOonnell's Oily Flycatcher. 



Mionectes oleagineus (nee Licht. ) Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 702, 

 1848 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 293 (part) (Bartiea Grove and Cama- 

 cusa); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 112 (part), 1888 

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

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



Mionectes oleagineus oleagineus Beebe, Trop. Wild Life Brit. Guian. 

 p. 223, 1917. 



Pipromorpha oleaginea macconnelli Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, 

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



Adult. General colour above dull dark green including the 



