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Family PIPRID^. 



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

 Brabourne and Chubb 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. 



Pipra Linn. Mus. Adol. 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 culraen, is about half its width and the width 

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

 rounded, the third an4 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 : male and female 

 entirely difEerent. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Throat red ; crown of head and nape 



also red ; upper tail-coverts black ... P. aureola, p. 242. 

 B.' Throat black. 



J. Crown of head and nape orange ; 



upper tail-coverts black P. erythrocephala, p. 245. 



c. Crown of head and nape white ; upper 



tail-coverts black P. leucocilla, p. 246. 



d. Crown of head white ; nape black ; 



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



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