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Show 438 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON PERUVIAN BIRDS. [June 24, some confidence, able to describe as new. These are, first, a new Tanager of the genus Euphonia, which we propose to call EUPHONIA CHRYSOPASTA, sp. nov. (Plate XXX. figs. 1 & 2.) Supra eeneo-viridis, in fronte et uropygio paulo magis splendens, in pileo summo obscurior: alis caudaque nigricantibus ceneo limbatis: subtus medialiter leete flava, lateraliter viridi as-persa; tectricibus subalaribus, remigum marginibus internis, et tibiis albis : rostro obscure plumbeo, pedibus fuscis : long. tota 4*3, alee 2*3, caudee 1*5. $ . Supra mari similis, subtus medialiter grisescenti-alba, crisso flavo. Hab. in Peruvia orient, in ripis fl. Ucayali (Bartlett) ; et in ripis fl. Napo, reipubl. iEquatorialis. Mr. Bartlett obtained three male examples of this Tanager-two on the Upper Ucayali (in June 1865), and one on the lower part of the same river. Sclater's collection contains a pair of the same species, obtained from the Rio Napo through M. Verreaux some years since, but which have remained hitherto undetermined. This Euphonia is a well marked form, and does not very closely resemble any other described species. The change of the under surface from yellow in the male to greyish white in the female is repeated in E. chalybea and E. xanthogastra. The second bird is a small Piprine form, allied to the rufous species of Heteropelma, which Herr v. Pelzeln has lately described as H. rufurn*, but much more diminutive in size, being scarcely larger in bulk than a typical Pipra, although its tail is relatively much longer. In the shape of the bill, however, as in general structure, this bird comes nearer to Heteropelma than to Pipra. The wings reach to about the middle of the tail, the third remex being scarcely longer than the second and fourth, the first rather shorter than the fifth. The tail is nearly square at the end, the external rectrices being very little shorter than the medial. The feet are small and slender; the tarsus divided in front into five or six scutes, and covered behind with minute, almost obsolete, reticulations. The three anterior digits are closely united together, the cohesion between them extending up to, if not rather beyond, the commencement of the terminal digits. The general colour is rufous, with a cinereous cap ornamented by a half-concealed vertical stripe, as in Heterocer-cusf. In the male this stripe is of a lemon-yellow; in the female and young male red. W e propose to call this bird NEOPIPO RUBICUNDA, sp. et gen. nov. (Plate XXX. fig. 3.) Rufa; subtus, preecipue in gula, dilutior: pileo cinerascente, striya * Orn. Bras. p. 185. W e believe this bird to be the same as Schiffornis 'major, Bp., described and figured -by Des Murs in Castelnau's Voyage, Ois. p. 66, t. xviii. f. 2. t Herr v. Pelzeln has separated his Heterocercus flavivertex from H. linteatus, as having the vertical spot yellow and no black on the head (Orn. Bras. p. 186). But Strickland's figure of H. linteatus, fem. (Contr. Orn. 1800, pl. 63), exactly agrees with one of Natterer's type specimens of H. flavivertex; and we are by no means satisfied that the two birds are distinct. |
