PIPEA. 109 



Nitide nigerrima ; capite toto coccineo, plumis ad basin albis, mento, femoribua efc subalaribus citrinis : rostro 

 et pedibus oarneis. Long, tota 4*0, alee 2*3, caudee 1*1, rostri a rictu 0-5, tarsi 0-5. 



? olivaceo-viridis: subtus pallidior, subalaribus pallide flavidis. (Descr. maris efc feminss ex Choctum, 

 Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hal. Mexico, Cordova {SalU ^), Playa Vicente {Boucard 2), Teapa in Tabasco {Mrs. E. 

 H. Smith), Tizvcam in Yucatan, Meco and Mugeres Islands (G'attmer) ; British 

 HoNDUEAS, Orange walk (Gaumer), Cayo [Blancamaux] ; Guatemala, Choctum, 

 Yzabal (0. S. &F.D.G.); Nicaragua, Chontales {BeW^^) ; Costa Kica, Tucurriqui^, 

 Turrialba [Arce), Angostura [Carmiol ^) ; Panama, Bugaba, Mina de Chorcha 

 {Arce ^% Lion Hill {M'Leannan ^). 



M. Salle was the first to discover this pretty Pipra in the forests in the vicinity of 

 Cordova in the Mexican State of Vera Cruz, and this is the most northern point recorded 

 of its range ; but from this place southwards it occurs nearly uninterruptedly in the 

 forests on the eastern side of the Cordillera to the State of Panama, where it is also 

 found in the forests bordered by the Pacific Ocean. 



It has not yet been met with in any portion of Western Mexico or Guatemala ; but 

 in the hotter portions of British Honduras and Vera Paz it is abundant up to an eleva- 

 tion of about 2000 feet. It frequents the underwood in the mixed tropical forest of 

 lofty trees. 



Pipra mentalis is the only species having a yellow chin, thighs, and under wing- 

 coverts, P. chloromeros of Peru and Bolivia also has yellow thighs, but the chin and 

 under wing-coverts are black. 



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2, Fipra anricapilla. 



Manacus aurocapillus, Briss. Orn. iv. p. 448, t. 34. f, 2 \ 

 Pipra erythrocephala, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 339 ^. 



Pipra auricapilla, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 29°; Cab, & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 92*; Scl. Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus, xiv. p. 296 '. 



Nitide nigerrima ; capite et nucha aureis, margine postico coccineo ; femoribus extrorsum coccineis, introrsum 

 albis ; subalaribus albido intermixtis : rostro et pedibus carueis. Long, tota 3*5, alse 2"2, caudse 0*8, rostri 

 a rictu 0"45, tarsi 0"55. (Descr. maris exCbepo, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 

 $ olivaceo-viridis, subtus pallidior. 



Ilab. Panama, Chepo (ArcS). — South America, Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana \ and 

 Amazons valley. 



This common South-American species can hardly be called a member of our fauna, 

 but we include it here since we possess a male specimen from Chepo, on the isthmus of 

 Panama, a little to the south-eastward of the railway. As P. mentalis occurs on the 

 line of railway itself, the boundary of the ranges of the two species is probably thus 

 indicated to within a few miles. P. auricapilla is also found in the Cauca valley, 

 Venezuela, Trinidad, Guiana, and the whole of the Amazons valley up to the base of 

 the Andes. 



