Dwarf tyrant-manakin
The dwarf tyrant-manakin or dwarf tyranneutes is a species of bird in the family Pipridae, the manakins. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Taxonomy and systematics
The dwarf tyrant-manakin was originally described in 1906 as Pipra stolzmanni. It was later transferred to genus Tyranneutes that Sclater and Salvin had erected in 1881.The dwarf tyrant-manakin is monotypic. It shares genus Tyranneutes with the tiny tyrant-manakin and the two form a superspecies.
Description
The dwarf tyrant-manakin is long and weighs. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have an olive head, upperparts, wings, and tail. Their throat and breast are paler grayish olive and their belly pale yellow. They have a highly variable iris with colors ranging from yellowish white to pale grayish or pale brown. They have a dark maxilla, a paler mandible, and grayish legs and feet.Distribution and habitat
The dwarf tyrant-manakin is a bird of the western and central Amazon Basin. It is found from the southeastern third of Colombia south through eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru into northern Bolivia and east from there across southern Venezuela and Brazil. In Brazil its range's edge in the north roughly follows from Roraima west of the Branco and Negro (Amazon)|Negro] rivers to the Amazon River and south of it to the Atlantic in northeastern Pará and northern Maranhão. In the south its range roughly follows from Rondônia southeast to southern Mato Grosso and from there northeast to the Atlantic in Maranhão.The dwarf tyrant-manakin primarily inhabits the interior of humid terra firme forest and to a lesser extent várzea forest. It seldom is found at the forest edge or in clearings. It is primarily a bird of the lowlands, reaching only in Colombia, in Ecuador, in Peru, and in Venezuela.