XENOPiPO. 255 



Genus XENOPIPO Cab. 



Xenopipo Cabanis, Archiv fiir Naturg. xiii. pt. i. p. 235, 1847. Type 

 JC. atronitens Cab. 



Fig. 103. — Xenopipo atronitens. 



The chief character in thii5 genus is the exposed mesorhinium. 

 The upper mandible is slightly hooked, the width o£ the bill at the 

 base being equal to about four-fifths the length of the exposed 

 culmen. The wing is rounded, the second, third, fourth, and fifth 

 primaries longest, the first about equal in length to the seventh. 

 The tail is slightly emarginate and about two-thirds the length of 

 the wing. The tarsus is about two-thirds the length of the tail 

 and the hind toe and claw about equal to the middle toe and claw. 

 Coloration : male and female different. 



517. Xenopipo atronitens. 



Black Manakin. 



Xenopipo atronitens Cab. Archiv fiir Naturg. xiii. pt. i. p. 235, 1847 

 (British Guiana) ; id. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 697, 1848 ; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 299 (Mei-ume Mts., Eoraima) ; Sclater, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 287, 1888 (Merumg Mts.) ; Braboume & Chubb, 

 B. S. Amer. i. p. 309, no. 3165, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above and below glossy steel-blue ; 

 flight-quills and tail-feathers blackish above and pale brown below. 

 " Bill plumbeous ; feet black" {Whitely). 



Total length 119 mm., exposed culmen 13, wing 72, tail 45, 

 tarsus 15. 



The specimen described was collected on the Berbice B,iver. 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface dark green; 

 rather darker on the fore part of the head; flight-quills and tail- 

 feathers blackish brown above and pale brown on their under 

 surface; under surface of the body paler and more yellowish 

 green ; axillaries and under wing-coverts greyish white. Wing 

 71 mm. 



