White-bearded Manakin

9 cm. Both sexes have bright orange legs. <NThe male is black above with a slate-gray rump. White collar. White throat, sometimes puffed out. Rest of the underside grayish. <NThe female is olive-green above, yellowish green below, towards the throat becoming light gray. The bright pale yellow bend of the wing frequently visible. Female of /Chiroxiphia caudata is larger and olive below as on the back, with lighter horn-colored bill. During his display the male produces very loud whip-lash like or fireworks-like like snaps. These are intermingled with "peearr" and "peeooo" calls. The call of both sexes is a short chiurr cut 2 . Also a loud "huit..... huit.... huit...". Forages in the lower stratum of dense thickets. Sally gleans for fruits etc. from a low perch. During the noisy display the male moves very quickly back and forth between a pair of upright twigs and slides up and down a twig with wings spread out ^44 . Rather common in the undergrowth of thickets and secondary overgrown forest and borders and also in restinga forest. Throughout. Serra do Mar, Serra Mantiqueira<8E>and<8E>Serra dos Org<C4>os ^15 south to the Parana border. To 1000 meters. 7349 Wing snapping and calls at lek. PE Jacupiranga, near Caverna do Diabo, 11<10>5<10>95. Sunny, 25<91>C. Open secondary scrub. With /Vireo olivaceus, Saltator similis, Leptopogon amaurocephalus .: 9469 Call. Fazenda Capricornio near Ubatuba, 11<10>21<10>98. Cloudy, light rain, 20<91>C. Secondary forest.: 15930 Call. Cornell Cat 81434, Araguaia National Park, Goias, 4<10>7<10>87. With /Chiroxiphia caudata . Recording by P. K. Donahue.: 6208 Calls. Fazenda Serra do Mar near Cachoeira de Macacu, RJ , 3<10>97. Recording by Juan Mazar Barnett: 6295 >. Male: 5860 >. Female: