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+- BLUE Pl ' Pra pare ° la ' Lm - Sy P- '• p - 339 " 2 - 



BACKED M Manacus fuperbus, Pall. Spic. vi. p. 8. t. 3. f. 1. 



Le Manakin noir hupe, Brif. orn. iv. p. 459. pi. 35. f. 1. — PI. enl. 6S7. 



f. 2. 



Le Tije, ou Grand Manakin, Buf. oif. iv. p. 411. pi. 19. f. 2. 



Tijeguacu, £??//. orn. p. 218. 



Blue-backed Manakin, Edzv. pi. 261. f. 1. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. CIZE of a Sparrow: length four inches and a half. Bill 

 dufky : irides fapphire blue : general colour of the plumage 

 black ; except the back 3 and lefler wing coverts^ which are of 

 a very fine blue : the top of the head has the feathers elongated, 

 and form a creft, flat on the top, and indented in the middle at 

 the back part, and may be erected at the will of the bird ; the 

 colour of this is a glowing crimfon : legs red. 



Young birds are at firft green all over, except the creft, 

 which is crimfon, but lefs bright : this we are aflured of from 

 now and then meeting with birds with mixed colours of blue, 

 green, and black, in their various intermediate approaches to- 

 wards their perfect ftate. 

 Female. It has been mentioned likewife to us, that the females are 



wholly of the olive-green colour *, ever remaining fo during 

 life, but ftill retain the creft like the male ; however we will not 

 aflure this for fact. 

 Placb. Thefe birds are natives of Brafil and Cayenne, and have alfo 



been met with in the ljle of Cuba. 



Both the above-defcribed are in the Leverian Mufeum. 



* See PL enl. 303. f. 2. 



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