pirRA. 245 



'" In the crop of the nestling were two kinds of small, fleshy 

 seeds, two-inch worms, and a small brilliant green beetle. 



"A week later, on March 27, I examined the second nestling, 

 a male. It sat silently crouched far down in the nest until 

 disturbed, when it uttered a shrill chirp. The flight-feathers were 

 almost full-grown, but quite unbroken from their sheaths. Even 

 a kingfisher does not exhibit such long continued sheathing. In 

 the crop was a single, sharp-studded, flattened, circular seed with 

 the flesh all dissolved away.'' 



509. Pipra erythrocephala. 



Golden-headed Manakin. 



Golden-lieaded Blade Tit-Mouse Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, i. p. 21, 

 pi. 21. fig. 2, 1743 (Surinam). 



Parus eryfhyoceplialus Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. i. p. 191, 1758 

 (" America australi " = Surinam). 



Fipra eri/throcejjluila Linn. Sj'st. Nat. 12th ed. i. p. 339, 1766 

 (Brasilia) ; Hellmayr in Wytsman's Gen. Av., Fam. Pipridse, 9, p. 7, 

 1910 ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, pp. 342, 343, 348, 1910 

 (Aremu River) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 305, 

 no. 3116, 1912. 



Pipra axcrocapilla Cab. in Sehomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 696, 1848 ; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 300 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, Merume Moun- 

 tains, Atapurau River, Roraima 3500 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus xiv. p. 296, 1S88 (Georgetown, Bartica Grove, Camacusa^ 

 Attapurow River, Roraima). 



Adult male. General colour above and below glossy blue-black ; 

 crown of head, sides of face, and hind-neck orange-yellow, fringed 

 with red on the latter ; thighs red. 



Total length 79 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 55, tail 19, 

 tarsus 14. 



The male described was collected by Mr. McConnell on the 

 Lower Mazaruni River during his exjjedition to Mount Roraima 

 in 1898. 



Adult female. General colour above and below olive-green, 

 somewhat paler and inclining to whitish on the lower abdomen, 

 vent, under tail-coverts, and under wiug-coverts. Wing 59 mm. 



Immature male. The young male first assumes the plumage of 

 the female and then changes, as the present bird was doing, to the 

 male plumage first, l)y assuming the orange-yellow on the sides of 

 the face and the dark feathers on the breast and wings. 



