12 WHITE-FACED MANAKIN. 



LENGTH three and a half inches : beak red : 

 head crested, and of a beautiful yellow colour: 

 rest of the body and wings of a fine purple : tail 

 red. Inhabits Mexico and Brazil. 



WHITE-FACED MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra albifrons.) 



Pi. crista alba, corpore rubro testaceo, dorso nigro, gulture albo 



nigro marginato,femoribus c&ruiescentibus. 

 Manakin with a white crest; body beneath testaceous; back 



black ; throat white, margined with black ; thighs blue. 

 Pipra albifrons. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 339. 5. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 1000. Lath. Ind. Orn. '&. oOu. 21. 

 Le demi-fin a huppe et gorge blanches. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ota* 



5. 335. 



Le Plumet blanc. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 429- 

 Le Manicup de Cayenne. Buff. PL Enl. 707. 1. 

 White-faced Manakin. Edwards. 344. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 



530. 18. 531. 18. A. 



ABOVE five inches in length : beak black : head 

 with a white crest, composed of long pointed 

 feathers : supercilia white ; throat and between 

 the eyes the same ; surrounded with black all 

 round from eye to eye : hind part of the neck, 

 middle of the back, and wings, blackish ash-colour: 

 rest of the body and tail orange, inclining to cin- 

 namon colour: thighs dusky: legs reddish yellow. 



Buffon describes a variety of this bird, which 

 he says is distinct, but there does not appear suf- 

 ficient grounds to warrant the conclusion : its 



