286 AYES. 



PiPRA, Lin. 



The Manakins have a compressed beak, higher than it is broad, and 

 emarginated; large nasal fossae. Their feet and tail are short; the 

 general proportions of their form have long caused them to be 

 considered as very similar to the Titmouse. At their head, but in a 

 separate group, should be placed, 



RupicoLA, Briss. 



The Rock Manakins, or Cocks of the Rock, which are large birds, 

 and have a double vertical crest on the head, formed of feathers 

 arranged like a fan. The adult males of the two American species, 

 Pipra rupicola, Gm. Enl. 39 and 747; Vieill. Gal. 189, and Pip. pe- 

 ruviana, Lath. Enl. 745, are of a most splendid orange colourj the 

 young of an obscure brown. They live on fruit, scratch the ground 

 like the common Hen, and construct their nests with pieces of dry 

 wood, in the depths of rocky caverns. The female lays two eggs. 



Calyptomenes, Horsf. 



Only differs from the preceding by the feathers on the head not 

 being disposed like a fan; this same character, in a minor degree, 

 may be observed in the Pip. peruviana. 



There is a species found in the archipelago of India of the 

 most beautiful emerald green Cal. viridis, Horsf. Jav. which 

 is not larger than a Thrush. 



Pipra, Cuv. 



The Manakins proper are small, and remarkable in general for 

 their lively colours.(l) They live in small flocks, in forests, on low 

 grounds. 



EuRYLAiMus, Horsf. 



Toes similar to those of the Manakins and the Rock Manakins; but 

 the beak, as strong as that of the Tyrants, is enormously broad and 

 depressed, the base even surpassing the width of the forehead. The 

 point is a little hooked, and slightly emarginate on each side; the 

 ridge is blunt. 



(1) Pipra miUturis, Sh. Nat. Misc., 849 ; Pipra caudata, Sh. Nat. Misc., 153, 

 Spix, 6; Pipra JiUcauda, Spix, 8; Pipra pareola^ Enl.j 637, 2, and 303, 2; 

 superba, Pallas, Sp. 1, pi. iii, f. 1; erythrocephala, Enl. 34, 1 ; aureola, 34, 3, and 

 302; rubrocapilla, Col. 54, 3 or comuta, Spix, 7, 2; coronata, Sp. 7, 1, 2 ; se- 

 rena, Enl. 324, 2, and Vieill. Gal. 72 ^gutturalis, 324, 1 ; kucoeapilla, 34, 2 ; wia- 

 nacus, 302, 1 and 303, 1 istrigilata, Pr. Max. Col. 54, 1,2. 



