242 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



C. Throat olive-green streaked with dull 

 white ; crown of head olive-green with 

 a yellow coronal patch F. virescens, p. 248. 



508. Pipra aureola. 



Orange-headed Manakin. 



Black and Yellow Manakin Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. ii. p. 83, pi. 83. 



fig. 2, 1747 (South America). 

 Parus aureola Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 191, 1758 ("Hab. in America"): 

 Pipra aureola Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 339, 1766 ("Hah. in America 



australi ") ; Schomb. Reis. G-uian. iii. p. 696, 1848 (Barima Eiver) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 299 (Bartica Grove) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. xiv. p. 293, 1888 (Bartica Grove) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. 



Amer. i. p. 305, no. 3111, 1912. 

 Pipra aureola aureola HeUmayr in Wytsman's Gen. Av., Fam. Pipridse, 



9, p. 6, pi. 2. fig. 7, 1910 ; Beehe, Tropical Wild Life in British 



Guiana, p. 234, 1917. 



A^ult male. Crown of head, hind-neck, breast, and middle oE 

 abdomen briglit red ; forehead, cheeks, and throat paler and more 

 orange-red ; back, wings, tail, above and below, sides of the body, 

 and under tail-coverts velvety-black; inner webs of flight-quills 

 marked with white, which begins with a small spot on the outer 

 primary, increasing in extent towards the inner secondaries where 

 it covers almost the whole of the inner web ; outer edge of wing 

 orange-yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white with dark 

 tips to the former ; quills below black, with a large white patch 

 across the middle. 



Total length 106 mm., exposed culmen 10, wing 63, tail 27, 

 tarsus 15. 



The specimen described was collected on the Abary Eiver in 

 September 1906. 



Advlt female. General colour above yellowish olive-green 

 including the head, back, wings, and tail ; sides of body and 

 under tail'-coverts similar but paler ; throat, middle of breast,iand 

 middle of abdomen orange-yellow. Wing 63 mm. 



The female described was collected on the Abary River in 

 November 1906. 



Immature male. Similar to the adult female. The first approach 

 of the male plumage is usually seen by the red on the ear-coverts 

 and breast. 



Nestling. Described by-Beebe, infra, pp. 244-245. 



Breeding-season. March (^Beebe). 



