Manakins (Pipridae)

Orange-collared Manakin (Manacus aurantiacus) - HBW 9, p. 156

French: Manakin à col orange German: Orangebandpipra Spanish: Saltarín Cuellinaranja

Taxonomy: Chiromachaeris aurantiaca Salvin, 1870, Mina de Chorcha and Bugaba, Chiriquí, Panama.
Genus possibly closest to Chiroxiphia and Antilophia. Its four members form a superspecies, and all sometimes treated as conspecific under the name M. manacus. Alternatively, present species has been considered by some to be conspecific only with M. vitellinus. Monotypic.

Distribution: Pacific lowlands and foothills of S Costa Rica and SW Panama.