PIPRA. 247 



Supenaam River, Bartica, Bonasika River, Mazaruni River, 

 Kamakabra River, Makaiiria River, Anarica River, Arwye Greek, 

 Great Falls Deinerara River, Arawai River {McConnell collection) ; 

 Bartica, Kamaskusa, Mernine Moantains (WJdteli/) ; Maccasseema 

 (TF. L. Sclater) ; Aremu River (^Beehe). 



ExtraUinital Range. Surinam, Cayenne, Venezuela, North 

 Brazil, North Peru. 



Habits. Accordinor to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 697) this 

 species frequents the dense woods, and consequently he had but 

 little opportunity of observing its habits. He observed it singly 

 and in pairs when it came out into the bushes growing along the 

 rivulets in the woods. 



The following note is quoted from Beebe (Our Search for 

 a Wilderness, p. 311) : — " Exquisite white-capped Manakins, clad 

 in shining black save for their snowy caps. Their flight, unlike 

 their white-breasted cousins which we met in Venezuela, was 

 noiseless. They were far from silent however, twanging their 

 little vocal chords in an apology for a song — a wheezy, grass- 

 hopper-like buzz. The females were silent, sombre little beings — 

 dull olive-green above, with a grayish cap and paler below." 



511. Pipra suavissima. 



Orange-bellied Manakin. 



Fipra serena (nee Linn.) Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 697, 1848. 



JBipra suavissima Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1882, p. 79, pi. i. (Merume 

 Mts.) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 300 (Atapurau Elver, Bartica Grove, 

 Roraima, 3500-4000 ft.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 300, 

 1888 (Merume Mts., Eiver Attapurow. Roraima, Bartica Grove) ; 

 Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 307, no. 3132, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour, both above and below, for the most 

 part velvety-black; fore part of head white, fringed with blue on 

 the posterior margin ; up[ier tail-coverts blue: abdomen ricli orange. 



Total length 83 mm., exposed culnien 9, wing 58, tail 24, 



tarsus 15. 



The male described was collected on the Kamakabra River in 



1911. 



Adult female. General colour above green ; throat greyish ; 

 breast dusky green ; abdomen and under tail-coverts yellow ; 

 under wing-covcrts and axillaries greyish white. Wing 58 nun. 



The female described was colhicted by Blr, McConnell at ]\Iount 

 Roraima daring his expedition in October 1898. 



