GOULD'S MANAKIN 



4. Manacus vitellinus vitellinus (Gould) 

 Gould's Manakin 



Male. Length 103 mm. (4.00 in.); tail 29 

 mm. (i.io in.). Head, back, shoulders and 

 tail black, rump olive green, wings yellow and 

 black; a collar across hindneck, sides of neck, 

 chest and whole throat, bright orange-yellow; 

 rest of under parts light olive green. Bill 

 black; feet and legs reddish orange. 



Female. Olive green, lighter below. Feet 

 and legs as in male. 



Fairly common and the noisiest of the mana- 

 kins. Their loud snapping and cracking sounds 

 seem witchlike until located as eminating from 

 these little birds, rapidly darting from branch to 

 branch. The sound is incredibly loud and start- 

 ling to come from such a small creature. As in 

 the Yellow-thighed Manakin, the females are of 

 quieter disposition and equally inquisitive re- 

 garding visitors to their haunts. They can some- 

 times be distinguished from the females of Pipra 

 mentalis ignifera, by the bright colored legs. 



51. Family COTINGID^ 

 The Cotingas 



A large family of South and Central 

 American birds of the group Tyranni, closely 

 related to the flycatchers (Tyrannidce) and 

 connected with them by several intermediate 

 genera which may be placed in either family. 

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