The Choco manakin (''Cryptopipo litae'') is a species of

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in the family

Pipridae The manakins are a family, Pipridae, of small suboscine passerine birds. The group contains some 54 species distributed through the American tropics. The name is from Middle Dutch ''mannekijn'' "little man" (also the source of the different bird ...

. It occurs in humid forest in lowlands and foothills. It is found in the humid Chocó in eastern

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, western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It is considered to be of

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and

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References

Cryptopipo Birds of El Chocó Birds described in 1906 Taxa named by Carl Eduard Hellmayr {{Pipridae-stub