600 
Mr. Charles Chubb on the 
throat is more or less golden olive at first, as are also the sides 
of face and hind-neck; these parts become black as soon as 
the red on the head is fully developed. The blue of the body 
appears to be the last portion to change before the fully 
adult male plumage is completed. 
Two eggs, taken November 19, 1902, are cream-coloured, 
with spots and blotches of pale chestnut and underlying 
blotches of lilac formed into an irregular zone chiefly round 
the larger end of the egg. Axis 0’85 inch; diameter 0*65. 
[This species is resident and about the most common of 
all our monte birds : its light blue body and red crest 
making it visible at a long distance, the green female being 
almost as plentiful. Occasionally a female may occur with 
the red crest also, though not so fully developed as in the male 
bird it is true, but quite enough to make it distinguishable. 
I am positive that this is correct; they are not young birds, 
because the blue body and black neck-feathers all develop 
together ; the female birds to which I refer were fully adult 
with the ovaries quite large and distinct.— W. F.~\ 
163. PlPRA PASCJICAUDA. 
Pipra fasciata d^Orb. et Lafr. Syn. Av., Mag. de Zool. 
1837, p. 38 (Yuracares, Bolivia) ; Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, 
p. 131 (Paraguay) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 294. 
Pipra fasciicauda Hellmayr, Ibis, 1906, p. 9. 
Pipra fasciicauda fasciicauda Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xv. 
p. 54 (1909). 
a. S ad. Sapucay, May 27, 1904. 
Bill and feet purplish red ; iris white. 
b. $ ad.; c, d. $ imm. Sapucay, June 9-22, 1904. 
e,f. $ ad. et imm. Sapucay, August 18, 1904. 
The young male is almost identical with the female in its 
first plumage, and the first appearances of the male dress 
may be seen on the chin and throat, where it becomes deep 
orange-yellow. 
[A rare bird with us, the colour of the male marks it at 
once as a tropical species, although I have met with it 
during May and in fairly cold weather also.— W. F.] 
