609 BIRDS. 
Prpra, Cuv. 
The Manakins, properly so called, are small, and remarkable in general 
for their lively colours*. They live in small flocks, in forests, on iow 
grounds. 
Euryvatmus, 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)}. 
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FAMILY II. 
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FISSIROSTRES. 
Tue 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 Procnie in 
particular, whose bill only differs from theirs in being emarginate. 
Their decidedly insectivorous regimen eminently qualifies thern for birds 
of passage, which leave us in the winter. 
* Pipra militaris, Sh. Nat. Misc. 849;—Pipra caudata, Sh. Nat. Misc. 153, Spix. 6; 
—Pipra filicauda, Spix, 8;—Pipra pareola, En). 637, 2, and 303, 2;—superba, Pallas, 
Sp. 1, pl. iii, f. 1;—erythrocephala, Enl. 34, 1;—aureola, 34, 3, and 302;—rubrocapilla, 
Col. 54, 8, or cornuta, Spix, 7, 2;—coronata, Sp. 7, 1, 2;—serena, Enl. 824, 2, and 
Vieill. Gal. 72;—eutturalis, 324, 1; leucocapilla, 34, 2; manacus, 302, 1, and 303, 1; 
strigilata, Pr. Max. Col. 54, 1, 2. 
+ Todus macrorhynchos, Gm., Lath., Syn.’ II, pl. xxx, and Col. 154, under the 
name of Euryl. nasutus ;—Euryl. javanus, Horsf., and Col. 130 and 131, under the 
name of Euryl. Horsfieldii ;— Eur. cucullatus, Tem. Col. 261;—Eur. Blainvillii, Less. 
and Garn. Voy. de la Coquille, pl. xix, £2. The character of the bill is excessively 
developed in the Eur. corydon, Tem. Col. 297. 
ge" (a) Vieillot’s 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, 
and half covered by a membrane; tongue slightly bifid at the tip. One species only 
is known, and it is described by Wilson as the Pipra polyglotta.—EnG. Ep. 
