LONG-TAILED MAN AKIN. 15 



Dark-coloured Manakin, with the crown ornamented with long 

 flaming red feathers; the back between the wings with a 

 pale blue lunated space ; primary quills brownish. 



Pipra superba. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 999. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 

 556. 4. 



Manacus superbus. Pall. Spei. 1. 8. t. $.f. 1. 



Superb Manakin. Lath. Syn. Sup. 252. 1. 



THIS bird appears to have a great affinity to the 

 preceding, which it very much resembles : it is 

 of the same size : its beak is black ; and the pre- 

 vailing colour of the plumage is the same : back 

 pale blue : crown of the head with a bright red 

 crest : primary quills brown : tail short : legs yel- 

 lowish. May not this be a variety of Pipra 

 pareola ? 



LONG-TAILED M ANA KIN. 

 ( Pipra caudata.) 



Pi. ctsruleo, vertice sulcristato coccineo, alis nigris, rectricibus 



duabus intcrmediis elongnto-acuminatis. 

 Blue Manakin, with the crown ornamented with a crimson crest; 



wings black, with the two middle tail-feathers elongate and 



acuminated. 

 Pipra caudata. Shaw. Nat. Misc. 5. 153. -Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. 



II. h-ii. 4. 

 Long-tailed Manakin. Shaw. Nat. Misc. 153. Lath. Syn. &$?, 



II. 254. 7- 



DESCRIBED as the size of the blue-backed Ma- 

 nakin, which it has somewhat the habit of; the 

 prevailing colour being a fine blue, glossed with 



