PIPRITES. 



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Genus PIPRITES Cab. 



Piprites Cabanis, Arehiv fur Naturg. xiii. part i. p. 234, 1847. Type 

 P. pileattis (Temm.). 



Fig. 101. — Piprites pileatus. 



The specieo on which this genus was based are larger than the 

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

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

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

 culmen 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 shorter than the fifth but much longer than the sixth. 

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

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

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



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514, Piprites chlorion. 



Green Manakin. 



Hemipipo chlorion Cab. Arehiv fiir Naturg. xiii. pt. i. p. 234, 1847 

 (Cayenne) ; id. in Schomb. Jieis. Guian. iii. p. 697, 1848. 



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

 1885, p. 299 (Bartioa Grove, Merume Mts., Eoraima, 3500 ft.) ; 

 Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 285, 1888 (Eoraima, Bartiea 

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

 no. 3152, 1912. ■ 



Adult ? male. General colour above yellowish green, including 

 the fore p.irt 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, the greater 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 flight- 

 quills black, more or less fringed with green on the outer webs ; 

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



