First Records of Chestnut-Headed Tanager Pyrrhocoma Ruficeps from Goiás, Central Brazil
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Cotinga 35 Short Communications First records of Chestnut- Manakin Neopelma pallescens rare anywhere in the north of its headed Tanager Pyrrhocoma and White-bellied Warbler range) or just occasional visitors. ruficeps from Goiás, central Basileuterus hypoleucus. Recent Recent years have witnessed a Brazil records of Greenish Schiffornis suite of discoveries in Goiás of Chestnut-headed Tanager (e.g., WA556549) from the Pousada Atlantic Forest ‘endemic’ birds Pyrrhocoma ruficeps is a dos Anões also represent a minor whose ranges were considered distinctively plumaged Thraupidae range extension from the previous not to reach interior Brazil and generally considered to be endemic northern limit, Nova Veneza the Cerrado biome. These include 4,5 to the Atlantic Forest in north-east in central Goias . Although Shrike-like Cotinga Laniisoma 3 Argentina (Misiones), south-east Chestnut-headed Tanager is elegans and Pin-tailed Manakin 4 Paraguay and south-east Brazil considered to be associated with Ilicura militaris , thus increasing 6 (from Espírito Santo south to Rio bamboo , we did not observe the ornithological field work in the Grande do Sul). N. Moura and I large-stemmed Guadua paniculata fragments of humid montane encountered a pair of P. ruficeps anywhere around Alto Paraíso de forest in Goiás may yet reveal on 23 January 2012 at the Reserva Goiás, which is perhaps above this more surprises. bamboo’s altitudinal tolerance (it Particular do Patrimônio Natural Acknowledgements (RPPN) Fazenda Pousada dos was abundant to the west, lower I thank Nárgila Moura for Anões, Alto Paraíso de Goiás, in down, close to the town of Colinas company in the field; Derek the Chapada dos Veadeiros, Goiás. do Sul). Subsequently, D. Kverno Kverno for information on The pair was observed at 14h15 photographed (WA682653, 682636) his records of P. ruficeps; as they crossed a narrow vehicle a pair of P. ruficeps at Tabapuã o o Paulo Hungria Machado and track in gallery forest within a dos Pireneus (15 46’S 48 48’W) in Gustavo Malacco for supplying vast matrix of well-preserved the municipality of Cocalzinho de references; and Bradley Davis for cerrado physiognomies at 14o19’S Goiás (30 km north of Pirenopolis) recommending I visit the Fazenda 47o29’W (1,130 m). The pair fed on 8 July and 25 August 2012. dos Anões. on coarse grasses and remained This pair associated with a mixed largely within cover. I obtained flock including Saffron-billed References a good-quality recording of their Sparrow Arremon flavirostris, 1. Antunes, A. Z. & Willis, E. O. contact calls—an unobtrusive Yellow-bellied Seedeater (2003) Novos registros de high-pitched tip.... tip archived on Sporophila nigricolis and Ochre- aves para a Fazenda Barreiro www.xeno-canto.org (XC93479) cheeked Spinetail Synallaxis Rico, Anhembi-São Paulo. but they were unresponsive to scutata, foraging in grasses in the Ararajuba 11: 101–102. playback of their own vocalisations understorey of gallery forest (D. 2. Bagno, M. A. & Marinho- and we lacked any pre-recorded Kverno in litt. 2012). The previous Filho, J. (2001) A avifauna songs. I obtained poor-quality northernmost documented record do Distrito Federal: uso de photographs of the male, of which is from the Casca D’Anta waterfall, ambientes abertos e florestais two are archived on WikiAves Serra da Canastra National Park, e ameaças. In: Ribeiro, J. F., (WA556855 and 556853). These Minas Gerais (>660 km from Fonseca, C. E. L. & Sousa- images are sufficient to resolve the Chapada dos Veadeiros), Silva, J. C. (eds.) Cerrado: the male’s silver bill, dark where a pair was observed and caracterização e recuperação lores, chestnut head and grey tape-recorded on 13 August de matas de galeria. 7 wings, body and tail, which in 2005 . However, the species Planaltina: EMBRAPA. combination are diagnostic of this has previously been reported 3. Ferreira, A. A., Figueiredo- tanager. We maintained aural (documentation unclear) from the Neto, A., Paula, J. P., and occasional visual contact for Distrito Federal, at Fazenda Agua Machado, N., Azevedo, P. L. 20 minutes until the pair moved Limpa, just 150 km south-west & Laranjeiras, T. O. (2010) away. of Fazenda Pousada dos Anões2. Ocorrência de Laniisoma Other birds observed in the Antunes & Willis1 suggested that elegans (Aves: Tityridae) no same forest fragment included Chestnut-headed Tanagers breed Estado de Goiás. Atualidades Ochre-cheeked Spinetail in the Serra do Mar and Serra do Orn. 156: 9. Synallaxis scutata, Russet- Mantiqueira, and migrate to the 4. Kirwan, G. M. (2008) The mantled Foliage-gleaner interior during the austral winter. range of the Pin-tailed Syndactyla dimidiata, Rufous These new records—during both Manakin Ilicura militaris Gnateater Conopophaga the austral summer and winter— extends to central Brazil. lineata, Grey Elaenia Myiopagis appear out of synch with what Rev. Bras. Orn. 16: 260–261. caniceps, Black-tailed Flycatcher would be expected of long-distance 5. Snow, D. W. (2004) Family Myiobius atricaudus, Sepia- migrants or vagrants. Further Pipridae (manakins). In: capped Flycatcher Leptopogon observations are required to del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. amaurocephalus, Greenish ascertain whether the Chapada & Christie, D. A. (eds.) Schiffornis Schiffornis virescens, dos Veadeiros might host a Handbook of the birds of the Helmeted Manakin Antilophia resident population of P. ruficeps world, 9. Barcelona: Lynx galeata, Pale-bellied Tyrant- (which is apparently naturally Edicions. 97 Cotinga 35 Short Communications 6. Stotz, D. F., Fitzpatrick, J. W., 7. Vasconcelos, M. F., D’Angelo Alexander C. Lees Parker, T. A. & Moskovits, D. Neto, S., Kirwan, G. M., Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, CP K. (1996) Neotropical birds: Bornschein, M. R., Diniz, 399, Av. Perimetral 1901, Terra ecology and conservation. M. G. & Silva, J. F. (2006) Firme, 66077-530 Belém, Pará, Chiacgo: University of Important ornithological Brazil. E-mail: alexanderlees@ Chicago Press. records from Minas Gerais btopenworld.com. state, Brazil. Bull Brit. Orn. Club 126: 212–238. Received 27 January 2012, final revision accepted 4 September 2012; published online 10 March 2013 98.