Cotingas (Cotingidae)

Screaming Piha (Lipaugus vociferans) - HBW 9, p. 89

French: Piauhau hurleur German: Tiefland-Graupiha Spanish: Guardabosques Gritón
Other common names: Greenheart Bird

Taxonomy: Muscicapa vociferans Wied, 1820, Fazenda Pindoba, north of Caravellos, Bahia, Brazil.
Analysis of feather proteins has suggested possible relationship between this species and genus Tijuca (especially T. atra). Despite increase in size and weight from N to SW of range, and presence of isolated population in E Brazil, variation considered insufficient to merit naming of geographical races. Monotypic.

Distribution: E & S Venezuela (SE Sucre, Delta Amacuro, Bolívar, Amazonas), the Guianas, and forested parts of whole of Amazon Basin (W from edge of Andes) from Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil S to Bolivia; also coastal E Brazil (Pernambuco S to Espírito Santo).