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the Species of the Genus Pipreola. 
rhynchuSj from the red colour of their hills. Very shortly 
afterwards Dr. Hartlauh adopted the term as generic^ and 
took the opportunity of giving a list of the five species of 
the group known to him^ when figuring a recently described 
addition which he had made to it*. 
In his Conspectus ’ (1854) Bonaparte adopted Lafres- 
naye^s genus and Hartlaub^s list of species; but a few years 
later Cabanis and Heine_, in the second part of the ^Mu¬ 
seum Heineanum/ came to the conclusion that_, as regards 
the generic term Pyrrhorhynchus, Lafresnaye had been anti¬ 
cipated by De Filippi, who, in 1847 f, had proposed to use the 
term Euchlornis for the same group. This term Cabanis 
and Heine emended into Euchlorornis, supposing the deri¬ 
vation of it to be evj and opvLq. 
But both these generic appellations must, I think, give 
way to Pipreola of Swainson, established in 1838 for the 
reception of his P. chlorolepidota. Unfortunately Swainson^'s 
type is not to be found at Cambridge, and I have not been 
able to ascertain that it exists in any collection. But there 
can be no reasonable doubt, I think, that the bird which he 
described under this name was a female of one of the species 
of this group J, and that the term Pipreola, having been pro¬ 
perly defined, ought to be used for the genus. 
The synonymy of the genus Pipreola will therefore stand 
as follows — 
(1838) Pipreola, Sw. An. in Men. p. 357. Type P. chloro¬ 
lepidota. 
(1847) Euchlornis, Filippi, Mus. Mediol. An. Vert. cl. ii. 
p. 31. Type P. riefferi. 
^ “Note monographiqiie sur le sous-genre Pyrrhorhynchmf 'Roy. ZooL 
1849, p. 493. 
t Museum Mediolanense, Animalia Vertebrata, Classis ii. Aves, p. 31. 
Cf. Oorualia, Rev. Zool. 1853, p. 105. I am much indebted to Dr. Oornalia 
for sending me a copy of De Pilippi’s tract, in the appendix to which 
several other new genera and species are characterized. 
X The skin which I formerly referred to P. chlorolepidota seems to be a 
female of P. formosa, or of a nearly allied species. But, from its size and 
locality, P. chlorolepidota of Swainson is more likely to be a female of P, 
sclateri. (See remarks below, p. 
