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white men and only thinly populated by Indians. We obtained sev- 
eral additional specimens, and found one nest, very much like a robin’s 
fastened to the bare face of a huge split boulder; but it was empty.” 
He then describes the remarkable dance of this species (from the 
accounts of other observers): ‘‘. . . a score of birds of both sexes 
gather on the bushes surrounding an open space while a male goes 
through an extraordinary performance on the ground. While the 
audience cheers approvingly, the bird, with lowered wings and out- 
spread pumping tail, walks round and round, scratching the ground 
and springing into the air. When it tires, another male takes its place. 
There seem to be no data as to the duration of these marathons.”’ 
Family PIPRIDAE: Manakins 
PIPRITES CHLORIS TSCHUDII (Cabanis): Tschudi’s Manakin 
Hemipipo tschudii CaBanis, Journ. fiir Orn., vol. 22, 1874, p. 99 Se ae 
Dept. Junin, Peru). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
lad. #,1im. o&, Brazil, Serra Imeri, near Salto do Hud, Brazil-Venezuela line, 
December 2-4, 1930. 
Hellmayr (Catalogue of the birds of the Americas, pt. 6, 1929, pp. 
6-7) records this race from the Upper Rio Negro, although noting that 
in that area it ‘‘passes gradually into P. c. chlorion.”” More recently 
Phelps (Bol. Soc. Venez. Cienc. Nat., No. 56, 1943, p. 309) records 
tschudu from western Venezuela (La Sabana). Bearing these records 
in mind, it seems best to refer the present specimens also to tschudii, 
especially so in the absence of comparative material. However, it 
may be mentioned that in his discussion of P. c. chlorion of northern 
Brazil from Mand4os eastward to the Guianas, Hellmayr (I. c., p. 5, 
footnote) writes that specimens from British Guiana ‘‘are conspicuous 
for their grayish hind neck and their uniform pale gray breast and 
abdomen, strongly contrasted with the yellow throat and tail coverts, 
while the rectrices are but indistinctly tipped with yellowish . . .” 
These remarks might well have been made of the present two birds 
except for the breast color, which is here definitely mixed with 
yellowish. 
The immature bird has the lores brighter and more orange, less 
yellowish, and the chin and throat brighter yellow than the adult. 
PIPRA CORONATA CARBONATA Todd: Coal-black Manakin 
Pipra carbonata Topp, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 38, 1932, p. 98 (Tocan- 
tins, north bank of Rio Solimées, Brazil). 
SPECIMENS COLLECTED 
2 ad. o, 2 ad. 2, Brazil, Santa Isabel, Rio Negro, Amazonas, October 15-17, 
1930. 
