PiPRA. 247 



Supenaam River, Bartica, Bonasika River, Mazaruni River, 

 Kamakabra River, Makauria River, Anarica River, Arwye Greek, 

 Great Falls Demerara River, Arawai River (McConnell collection) ; 

 Bartica, [Camaskusa, Merume Mountains ( Whitely) ; Maccasseema 

 ( W. L. Sclater) ; Aremu River (Beebe). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam, Cayenne, Venezuela, North 

 Brazil, North Peru. 



Habits. According 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 iii the woods. 



The following note is quoted from Beebe (Our Search for 

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

 in sliining 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. 



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

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

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

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

 Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 307, no. 8132, 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 ; upper tail-coverts blue: abdomen rich orange. 



Total length 83 mm., exposed culmen 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-coverts and axillaries greyish white. Wing 58 mm. 



The female described was collected by Mr. McConnell at Mount 

 Roraiina daring his expedition in October 1898. 



