The American Museum Journal 
Vou. VIII MAY, 1908 No. 5 
SOUTH AMERICAN “MANAKINS.”’ 
HE illustration used as a frontispiece this month is a colored 
plate from the current volume of the Museum Bulletin (Volume 
XXIV, Plate XXV) used in the description of a new species 
of bird, Chiroxiphia napensis, by Mr. W. Dewitt Miller of the Depart- 
ment of Ornithology. The new form is the lower one on the plate, 
the upper one being Chiroxiphia boliviana, a species described some 
years ago by Dr. J. A. Allen, Curator of Mammalogy and Ornithology. 
These birds are natives of South America,’ where they are known as 
“Manakins,” a loose term applied to several quite different genera. 
Specimens of the Manakin are on exhibition in the general collection of 
ornithology in the north hall on the second floor (Hall No. 208). 
THE MALARIA MOSQUITO LEAFLET. 
HE Museum issued during the past month a Guide Leaflet on 
the Malaria Mosquito, with numerous illustrations most of 
which were made from the series of enlarged models that were 
recently installed in the Synoptic Hall (No. 107 of the Ground floor) 
or from drawings made from life and other sources in the preparation 
of the models. The Guide Leaflet is No. 27 in the Museum series 
and may be obtained at the Museum. 
THE USE OF THE CHILCAT BLANKET. 
HE Chileat blanket, many fine examples of which are to be seen 
in the collections of the Museum, is fast disappearing from 
among the Tlingit Indians, and of the older specimens, so beau- 
tiful in technique, coloring and design, few or none remain, hence it is of 
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