FAMILY PIPRIDAE 3II 



15. Throat pale gray ; darker, greener above. 



White-ruffed Manakin, Corapipo altera, female and immature, p. 325 

 Throat yellowish to greenish; dorsal surface duller, huffier 16 



16. Paler on lower surface, especially on abdomen. 



Golden-headed Manakin, Pipra e. erythrocephala, female and 



immature, p. 319 

 Duller, grayer on lower surface ; darker above. 



Red-capped Manakin, Pipra men talis ignifera, female and immature, p. 314 



17. Dull brown to olive-brown above ; grayish olive with a rusty brown 



band on breast Thrushlike Manakin, Schiffornis turdinus, p. 346 



Olive-green above ; greenish yellow below ; male with a concealed yellow 

 streak in the crown. .. .Broad-billed Manakin, Sapayoa aenigma, p. 353 



PIPRA CORONATA Spix: Blue-crowned Manakin, Saltarin 

 Corona Azul 



Pipra coronata Spix, Av. Spec. Nov. Bras., vol. 2, 1825, p. 5, pi. 7, fig. 1. (Sao 

 Paulo de Olivenga, Rio Solimoes, Amazonas, Brazil.) 



Small ; adult male, black with bright blue crown ; female green 

 above, with grayish green breast. 



Description. — Length 80-90 mm. Adult male, crown, bright blue ; 

 forehead, side of head, body, wings, and tail black. 



Adult female, forehead grayish white basally, tipped with rather 

 dull green ; rest of crown, hindneck, back, scapulars, inner wing 

 coverts, rump, and upper tail coverts dull green ; primaries, second- 

 aries, and outer wing coverts dusky edged with dull green ; tail 

 dusky, edged with dull green ; chin grayish, edged indistinctly with 

 dull green ; foreneck, breast, sides, and flanks dull green ; abdomen 

 and under tail coverts somewhat dull olive-yellow ; axillars and under 

 wing coverts pale greenish white. 



Juvenile male, in general like female, usually duller green above, 

 and more grayish underneath ; rarely with a bluish shade on back and 

 rump. Young males change rapidly to the black adult plumage. 



The Blue-crowned Manakin ranges widely from southern Costa 

 Rica southward through Panama and Colombia to Ecuador, eastern 

 PertJ, western Brazil, and southern Venezuela. Two subspecies, 

 differing slightly in size, and depth of color in the males, are found in 

 Panama. The race of the eastern area of the Isthmus is the more 

 common and widely spread form. 



One of the older records of this species by Salvin (Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1867, p. 149) for "Santiago de Veragua," cited also by 

 Salvin and Godman (Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, vol. 2. 1890, p. 110) 

 as "Santiago de Veraguas." appears to be in error, as the bird has not 

 been recorded otherwise in that area, and I have found no specimen 

 with that locality data in the Salvin-Godman collections. 



