254 BIRDS OF BRrriSH GUIANA. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima [McConnell collec- 

 tion) ; Mount Roraima ( Whitely). 



Extralimital Range. North Brazil (Rio Negro district). 



Habits. Schomburgk' states (Reis. Giiian. iii. p. 696) that he 

 first met with this beautiful species in the neighourhood o£ Mount 

 . Roraima at an altitude of 4000 feet. Its habits are like, those of 

 its congeners of the same genus. It is found chiefly in low bush, 

 though occasionally in taller trees, and is a gregarious species. 

 The " Arekunas" call it Kerepika. 



516. Ceratopipra iracunda. 



Roraima Manakin. 



Pipra iracunda Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1884, p. 447 (Mount Roraima) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 300. 

 Ceratopipra iracunda Sclater, Cat! B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 288, pi. xix., 



1888 (Mount Eoraima) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. 



p. 309, no. 3154, 1912. 



Adult male. Wings, back, tail, throat, breast, abdomen, under 

 tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts black; crown of head, nape, 

 sides of face, and thighs scarlet-red. 



Total length 111 mm., exposed culmen 8, wing"65, tail 35, 

 tarsus 18. 



This species is not represented in the McOonnell collection, and 

 the description is taken from the type which is in the British 

 Museum, and was collected by the late Henry Whitely on Mount 

 Roraima, at an altitude of 3500 feet, on the 20th of June, 1883 — 

 Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown. 



Nest. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Undescribed. 



Range confined to British Guiana. Mount Roraima ( Whitely) . 



Habits. Unrecorded. 



