MARCH 31, 1899 VOL. I; PP. 33-37 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
ON THE SUBSPECIES OF MANACUS MANACUS 
(LINN,). 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
WHEN reporting on the birds collected by Mr. W. W. Brown, 
Jr., in the Santa Marta region of Colombia, I placed the manakin 
he took there with M/anacus manacus (Linn.). This disposition of 
the bird, however, was made only provisionally, awaiting a better 
chance to study its relationship to the other forms of the A/anacus 
manacus series. 
Mr. Robert Ridgway and Dr. Charles W. Richmond have now, 
most kindly, forwarded to me, for study, all the skins of the 
Manacus manacus series contained in the collection of the United 
States National Museum. These, together with the Santa Marta 
series, form the material upon which the following notes are 
based. 
The series before me numbers only thirty-two skins, yet in a 
scattering way it covers the greater part of the area occupied by 
the species. Of the females I have so small a number that I am 
unable to make proper comparison between the different forms. 
The series brings out four well-characterized subspecies, two of 
which are already named and recognized, and two appear to be 
new. 
Pipra manacus was named by Linnzus from the Black-capped 
Manakin of Edwards, plate 260, pp. 107-108. Edwards supposed 
his bird to be an inhabitant of Surinam. His excellent figure and 
