256 



PIPRIDJE. 



Manakin above blue, beneath yellow ; with the head, neck, and 



breast green ; the quills brown edged with green. 

 Green-headed Manakin. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii. p. 228. pi. cviii. 



" Length four inches : beak stout, dusky-black : 

 head, neck, and breast fine pale grass-green : neck 

 behind, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts fine blue : 

 beneath, from the breast, vent, and under tail -coverts, 

 fine golden-yellow : quills dusky edged with green : 

 wing-coverts green, changing in some lights to blue : 

 tail short, a trifle hollowed out at the end ; colour 

 dusky, edged with green ; the coverts reaching half 

 way on it, and the quills to the same distance : legs 

 pale brown : the under tail-coverts nearly as long as 

 the tail." 



Sp. 12. Pi. Manacus. Steph. v. x. p. 27- — Manakin goitrenx. 



Desmar. Man. fyc. pi. 58. 

 Sp. 13. Pi. caudata. Steph. v. x. p. 15. 

 Sp. 14. Pi ? militaris. Steph. v. x. p. \6.pl.3. 



GENUS CXXIV— RUPICOLA, Brisson. 



Rostrum robustum, supra 

 convexum, ad apicem com- 

 pressum ; mandibula su- 

 perior emarginata, versus 

 apicem adunca ; inferior 

 recta, acuta. 



Digiti extcriores ad medium 

 usque coaliti ; pollex lon- 

 giusculus, latus; unguis 

 posticus fortis, valde adun- 



Beak robust, convex above, 

 compressed at the tip : the 

 tipper mandible emargi- 

 nate, hooked towards the 

 tip ; the lower straight, 

 acute. 



Outer toes connected to the 

 middle ; hind-toe lengthen- 

 ed, broad ; its claxe strong, 

 much hooked. 



