BLUE-BACKED MANAKIN, 

 (Pipra pareola.) 



Pi. crista sanguined, corpore nigro, dorso ctzruleo. 



Manakin with a blood- coloured crest, black body, and blue 



back. 

 Pipra pareola. Lin. Syst. Nat. I. 339. 2. Gmel. Sy&t. Nat. 1. 



990. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 555. 3. 



Manacus cristatus niger. Eriss. 4. 459. 10. t. 35. f. 1. 

 Le Tije, ou grand Manakin. Evff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 411. t. \Q, 



/2. 



Le Manakin noir huppe. Buff. PL Enl. foj.f. 2. 

 Le Manakin verd huppe de Cayenne. Buff. PI. Enl. 303> 2. 



foera. ? 

 Blue-backed Manakin. Edwards. Q,Q\.f. 1 Lath, Gen. Syn. 



4. 520. 2. 



LENGTH four and a half inches : beak dusky : 

 irides bright blue : head ornamented with a few 

 elongated feathers of a bright crimson colour, 

 which can be elevated at pleasure : back and lesser 

 wing-coverts blue: the rest of the plumage black: 

 legs red : size of the House Finch : female and 

 young bird with the whole of the plumage (the 

 crest excepted) green. This species inhabits Cuba 

 and part of South America. 



SUPERB MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra superba.) 



Pi. aterrima, verticis mediis plumis longiusculis exfiammeo ruhris, 

 dorsi inter alas area lunata dilute ccerulea, remigibus primori- 

 busjuscescentibus. 



