Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin

neopelma chrysolophum

Pipridae · Manakins

Disc 2 · 2001 listed
Disc 3 · 2006 listed
Disc 1 · 2011 listed

The account

Description

13 cm. Not distinguishable with certainty in the field from Neopelma aurifrons. Iris color pale grayish blue. Olive-green above with a yellow coronal patch. Throat whitish clouded with olive-gray. Belly pale yellow. However, habitat immediately defines this species.

The disc records this picture against the bird without a caption. Disc 3 · 2006

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin at 12 localities.

Historical checklist localities on the disc's own area map — the red dots the original program drew, placed by its recovered projection. Not a range map: it shows the places whose checklists record the bird, nothing more.

How the map was made

The original program computed each red dot at display time from the locality's coordinates, using its map library and one of five base maps drawn for the screen widths of the day. That library's projection — an oblique rotation of the sphere about the map's own centre, 23.7°S 47.4°W — was read from the program and checked against the graticule the same program drew into the base maps: it reproduces every grid intersection to within about a pixel. The dots here use that projection on the 1280-pixel base map, with the coordinates the discs record. Nothing was placed by hand, no modern map data was used, and a place whose coordinate is incomplete, out of range or beyond the map's edge is listed rather than guessed.

The discs carried location maps only; none shows a distribution or range.

Voice

The song is complex, has a typical sound color and consists of three elements (⁹³):

1) 1-4 sharp notes which can be repeated before the second part is started;

2) 3 or 4 rough and longer syllables and,

3) two syllables which are quieter and drawn out, 'gib gil gilb....zree zree zreei... zew.. zew' or variations thereof.

Behavior

Forages using short range (less than 1 m) sally-hovers to take fruits and sally-strikes to take insects (⁹³).

Breeding

Nest is a bag with an awning which is put beneath banks or a hanging root (⁹²).

Habitat and status

The highland Tyrant-Manakin of Southeast Brazil. More or less common in low or middle stratum of dense forest and highland scrub with small trees or at forest borders of primary or secondary montane forest bordering on bushy areas or in bushy areas with stunted tree growth. Not found in the lowlands in the interior of forest .

Distribution

Throughout. The Serra Mantiqueira, Serra do Mar (⁹³) and possibly the Serra dos Orgãos. From Rio de Janeiro south to Fazenda Intervales (Remold, ⁹³). Not lower than 800 meters (Nucleo Sta. Virginia above Ubatuba, Remold) to about 1700 meters (Serra Mantiqueira). Also further inland (Ibitiboca, near Lima Duarte, M.G., Remold, Caraça, M.G., Whitney, etc.).

Taxonomy notes

The relationship between the two sibling Neopelma species was analyzed in a recent paper (⁹³).

Decoded from the disc's own bytes. Each part is shown under the heading the disc files it under, and the wording, spelling and punctuation are the author's.

Vocalizations

Song. Ubatuba, 10/31/93. Sunny, 25°C. Open forest. With Saltator similis, Myiarchus swainsoni, Scytalopus speluncae, Pitangus sulphuratus, Stephanophorus diadematus, Myiodynastes maculatus, Hylopezus nattereri.
Song, above Ubatuba, 10/31/93. 25°C. Open disturbed forest. With Hylophilus poicilotis, Hylopezus nattereri, Turdus rufiventris.
Song. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 10/30/94. Cloudy, 15°C. Secondary forest. With Attila phoenicurus.
Song. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 3/11/98. Cloudy, 23°C. Secondary forest.
Song. Cornell Cat#17685, Itatiaia National Park, 10/27/77. With Stephanophorus diadematus. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
Song. Ibitiboca, 11/2/00. Sunny, 25°C. Bushy cerrado. With Cyclarhis gujanensis.

Recording files on the disc

15837.wav Song. Ubatuba, 10/31/93. Sunny, 25°C. Open forest. With Saltator similis, Myiarchus swainsoni, Scytalopus speluncae, Pitangus sulphuratus, Stephanophorus diadematus, Myiodynastes maculatus, Hylopezus nattereri.
11251.mp3 Song, above Ubatuba, 10/31/93. 25°C. Open disturbed forest. With Hylophilus poicilotis,Hylopezus nattereri, Turdus rufiventris.
11010.mp3 Song. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 10/30/94. Cloudy, 15°C. Secondary forest. With Attila phoenicurus.
8762.mp3 Song. Serra Bocaina, near S. Jose do Barreiro, 3/11/98. Cloudy, 23°C. Secondary forest.
4436.wav Song. Cornell Cat#17685, Itatiaia National Park, 10/27/77. With Stephanophorus diadematus. Recording by T. A. Parker, III.
8344.wav Song. Ibitiboca, 11/2/00. Sunny, 25°C. Bushy cerrado. With Cyclarhis gujanensis.

Across the three discs

The work was published on three discs — Disc 2 in 2001, Disc 3 in 2006 and Disc 1 in 2011. Where they differ, that is a difference between historical releases, and it is never merged away. The 2011 disc is not treated as correcting the earlier ones.

Which discs list this bird

Disc 2 · 2001 — in this disc's bird list
Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list

How that was established

Disc 2 · 2001: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
Disc 3 · 2006: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1
Disc 1 · 2011: aux_nonzero;local_checklist_byte45_flag_1

The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.

The account in the Disc 1 · 2011 revision

The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.

The work's own taxonomy

The discs carried three parallel name schemes. All three are shown as recovered; none is a modern taxonomy and none has been updated.

Scheme	Scientific name	English name	Family
WORLD	neopelma chrysolophum	Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin	Pipridae
CLEMENTS	neopelma chrysolophum	Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin	Pipridae
AOU_HM	neopelma chrysolophum	Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin	Pipridae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0184
Account identifier: seb_account_0184
Account number on the disc: 184
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative