30 SPECKLED MANAKIN. 



DESCRIBED by Dr. Latham, from a specimen in 

 the possession of Sir Joseph Banks, as follows : 

 " length four inches and a half: beak brown: 

 crown of the head and nape black, with a stripe 

 of white down the shafts of each feather : hind 

 part of the neck and back of a brownish ash- 

 colour, inclining to olive near the rump : between 

 the beak and eye a deep yellow spot: the wing- 

 coverts are brownish : the bastard wings tipped 

 with white, and some of the outer coverts tipped 

 with yellow, making an oblique band near the 

 outer edge of the wing : the quills dusky ; the 

 third shorter in proportion than any of the others, 

 being a quarter of an inch shorter than the second, 

 though all the others are of the usual length : the 

 under parts of the bird are yellowish, growing 

 very pale near the vent : under tail-coverts are 

 buff-colour: the tail black ; very short: the outer 

 feather tipped with white : legs dusky." Supposed 

 to inhabit Van Dieman's Land. 



SPECKLED MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra purictata.) 



Pi. griseafusco, undulata, vertice alisque nigris albopunctatis, tec- 



tricibus caudce rubris. 

 Grey Manakin, waved with brown, with the crown and wings 



black, spotted with white, tail-coverts red. 

 Pipra punctata. Shaw. Nat. Misc. p. 111. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



Sup. Ivi. 1. 

 Speckled Manakin. Shatu. Nat. Misc. 1 1 l.Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 



253. 4. 



THIS variable species is a native of New Hol- 

 land. In one specimen mentioned by Dr. Latham, 



