Black-capped Manakin

piprites pileatus

Pipridae · Manakins

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

The account

Description

11 cm. A striking bird. Bill and legs yellow.

The male has a black crown and nape and a chestnut back, rump and wing coverts. Wings blackish with yellowish margins to the flight feathers and a single yellow bar. Below buff-cinnamon. Tail rusty with black central feathers.

The female is similar, but the back is olive and it has light grayish yellow wingbars. Below yellowish.

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

Where it was recorded

The discs' own checklists select Black-capped Manakin at 3 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

Call a 'pep... pep... pep.... piu....'. Also a call sequence such as 'piu-pididididididi-piu'. Females seem to give a 'cheenh' (⁴⁴). Frugivorous (³⁰).

Behavior

Forages rapidly through middle and upper strata of trees. Often in mixed bird parties.

Habitat and status

Rare in primary and secondary mature montane forest. In the south apparently mainly in mixed forest. With Araucaria and Podocarpus. This species is listed as 'vulnerable' because the disappearance of suitable forest (¹⁰³).

Distribution

Rare on the lower Agulhas Negras road and Jeep trail,Itatiaia, Serra Mantiqueira. The road to São Jose dos Alpes, Campos do Jordão (Willis E.O.), Serra Bocaina (1600 meters, Sick), Nova Friburgo (⁴⁰). From 1000-1800 meters.

Taxonomy notes

For more information see ¹⁸⁶

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

Call, song. Cornell Cat#19360. São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul, 1/21/76. With Procnias nudicollis, Chamaeza meruloides, Pachyramphus polychopterus. Recording by W. Belton.

Recording files on the disc

9463.wav Call, song. Cornell Cat#19360. São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul, 1/21/76. With Procnias nudicollis, Chamaeza meruloides, Pachyramphus polychopterus. Recording by W. Belton.

More images

Montane forest. Serra da Mantiqueira on the Agulhas Negras road. Biome of Piprites pileatus. Disc 3 · 2006

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	piprites pileatus	Black-capped Manakin	Pipridae
CLEMENTS	piprites pileatus	Black-capped Manakin	Pipridae
AOU_HM	piprites pileatus	Black-capped Manakin	Pipridae

Source details

Identifier on this site: seb_species_0185
Account identifier: seb_account_0185
Account number on the disc: 185
Source edition: CD03 / 2006 package
Original taxonomy scheme: WORLD
Structure status: heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative