Manakins (Pipridae)

Red-headed Manakin (Pipra rubrocapilla) - HBW 9, p. 144

French: Manakin à tête rouge German: Rotkopfpipra Spanish: Saltarín Cabeirrojo Sureño

Taxonomy: Pipra rubro-capilla Temminck, 1821, Bahia, Brazil.
May form a superspecies with P. erythrocephala and P. mentalis; has been considered conspecific with former, but the two occur sympatrically in NE Peru (along R Ucayali and lower R Huallaga). Monotypic.

Distribution: E Peru, Brazil S of Amazon (E to N Maranhão, S to Rondônia and SC Mato Grosso, also disjunct coastal population from Pernambuco S to Rio de Janeiro) and N Bolivia.