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AVES. 
Pipra serena . —The White-Fronted Manakin. 
Plate LXVI. fig. 8. 
Back, throat, pectus, tail, and wings, black; venter and cris- 
sum rich golden-yellow, with a patch of the same on the centre 
of the pectus ; tergum royal blue; front white; bill black; legs 
and feet dusky-gray ; irides chestnut. 
Genus 23.—PARDALOTUS.— Vieillot. 
Generic Character. — Bill very short, thick, dilated at the 
base, with a distinct ridge ; mandibles of equal length, strong, 
convex, and somewhat obtuse at tip, the upper one being 
notched; nostrils lateral, basal, covered by a membrane; legs 
slender; tarsus longer than the middle toe. 
Pardalotus striatus _ The Streaked Manakin. 
Plate XLV. fig. 2. 
Grayish-brown above, cream-coloured below; top of the 
head black, with white stripes; between the bill and the eye a 
rich yellow spot; secondaries of the wings yellow at the tips. 
Four inches and a half long. Inhabits Van Dieman’s Land. 
Genus 24. — TOD US.— Linnaeus . 
Generic Character. —Bill long, mandibles much depressed; 
point of upper mandible straight, and cleft at the tip ; the lower 
mandible obtuse and truncated; nostrils open and round; base 
of bill beset with long nuchal bristles; toes lateral, unequal; the 
external one attached to the third joint, the internal to the 
second phalange; wings short, with the fourth quill the longest. 
Todus viridis. — The Green Tody. 
Plate XLV. fig. 4. 
Upper parts of a warm yellowish-green ; white below; throat 
scarlet, pectus silver gray; crissum yellow; axillae and middle 
wing-coverts verdigris blue ; upper mandible skin-colour, lower 
