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PiPRA, CuV. 



The Manakins, properly so called, are small', and remarkable in general 

 for their lively colours*. 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 bill, as strong as that of the Tyrants, is enormously broad and depress- 

 ed, 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. 



These birds inhabit the archipelago of India. The ground of their 

 plumage is black, variegated with patches of bright colours, and they have 

 something of the air of the Bucco, a genus of a very different order. They 

 live near the water, and feed on insects (a)f . 



FAMILY II. 



FISSIROSTRES. 



The Fissirostres form a family, numerically small, but very distinct 

 from all others in the bill, which is short, broad, horizontally flattened, 

 slightly hooked, unemarginate, and with an extended commissure, so that 

 the opening of the mouth is very large, which enables them to swallow 

 with ease the insects they capture while on the wing. 



They are most nearly allied to the Flycatchers, and to the Procnias in 

 particular, whose bill only differs from theirs in being emarginate. 



Their decidedly insectivorous regimen eminently qualifies them for birds 

 of passage, which leave us in the winter. 



* Pipra militaris, Sh. Nat. Misc. 849;— P/p/a caudala, Sh. Nat. Misc. 153, Spix. 6; 

 — Pipra filicauda, Spix, 8;— Pipra pareola, Enl. 637, 2, aud 303, 2;—superba, Pallas, 

 Sp. 1, pi. iii, f. 1 ; — erythrocephala, Enl. 34, 1 ; — aureola, 34, 3, and 302; — rubrocapilla, 

 Col. 54, 3, or cornuta, Spix, 7, 2; — coronata, Sp. 7, 1, 2; — serena, Enl. 324, 2, and 

 Vieill. Gal. 12;—gutturalis, 324, 1; leucocapilla, 34, 2; manacus, 302, 1, and 303, 1 ; 

 strigilata, Pr. Max. Col. 54, 1, 2. 



f Todus macrorhynchos, Gm., Lath., Syn.'II, pi. xxx, and Col. 154, under the 

 name of Euryl. nasutus ; — Euryl. javanus, Horsf., and Col. 130 and 131, under the 

 name oi Euryl. Horsfieldii; — Eur. cucullatus, Tera. Col. 261; — Eur. BlainviHii, Less, 

 and Gam. Voy. de la Coquille, pi. xix, f. 2. The character of the bill is excessively 

 developed in the Eur. corydon, Tern. Col. 297. 



|^° (fl) Vieillofs genus Icteria properly comes in this place. It is characterised 

 as follows : — Bill strong, convex, curved, compressed, nearly entire, and bristly at its 

 base; mandibles nearly equal, the edges being somewhat inverted; nostrils round, 

 aud half covei-ed by a membrane; tongue slightly bifid at the tip. One species only 

 is known, and it is described by Wilson as the Pipra pohjglotla. — Eng. Ed. 



