40 ZOOLOGY OF THE VOYAGE OF THE SULPHUR. 



Family— PIPRID^. 



PlPRA LINEARIS. Boiiap. 



Plate XX. 



Pipra linearis, Bonap. Proc. of Zool. Soc, Part V. p. 113. 

 fastuosa, Less. Rev. Zool. 1842. p. 174. 



Centre of the crown rich crimson, the feathers lengthened into a crest ; back light blue ; the 

 remainder of the plumage deep black ; bill black ; feet yellowish-brown. 



Total length, exclusive of the two centre tail feathers, 4 inches ; bill, £ ; wing, 2f ; lateral tail 

 feathers, 1| ; two central tail feathers, 6 ; tarsi, f . 



Inhab. Realejo, Central America. 



This beautiful species of Pipra was first described by the Prince of Musignano, 

 in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society as above quoted, when characterizing 

 some interesting birds from Mexico ; a fact with which M. Lesson appears to have 

 been unacquainted when he subsequently named it in the Revue Zoologique 

 Pipra fastuosa. It differs from all others I have ever had an opportunity of 

 examining, in the lengthened form of the central tail feathers, which are nearly 

 double the length of the body, and in the feathers of the forehead being 

 lengthened, erected, and inclined over the nostrils. 



One specimen only was procured, and this has been presented by the Lords 

 Commissioners of the Admiralty to the United Service Institution, in Middle 

 Scotland Yard, in which collection it is deposited. 



The figure is of the natural size. 



" Of the collections of Birds made during the voyage of the Sulphur, a por- 

 tion was sent to England by the Isthmus of Panama, of which a selection was, 

 by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, presented to the United Service 

 Museum, and others to the Zoological Society of London. The chief bulk was 

 brought home in the vessel, from which a selection of all such species as were 

 not previously in the British Museum has been made for that institution, and 

 these appear to amount to a considerable number ; and on the same understand- 

 ing the collection of the Zoological Society has recently received some interesting 

 additions." — Ed. 



