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plumage, especially about the neck, glossed with green ; the two 

 middle feathers of the tail elongated, three quarters of an inch beyond 

 the others, these are blue, the rest black, glossed with green on the 

 margins; legs pale brown. 



D'Azara describes this bird, and says it exceeds five inches and a 

 half in length, and extends nine and a half: nostrils round, and placed 

 in a hollow; irides brown; legs reddish. He says, the two middle 

 tail feathers as far as they exceed the others, in shape of a shovel, 

 (pelle) ; the bill somewhat curved, similar to that of the Perroquet. 

 It is very rare in the interior of the woods of Paraguay. Only two 

 individuals met with, which appeared very wild and restless, and 

 perched for a long time together near the top of some high trees ; 

 their cry said to resemble the word Inambu giiazU. Female dull 

 green, but the under coverts of the wings green, mixed with lead- 

 colour; quills beneath silvery. 



6 —MILITARY MANAKIN. 



Pipramilitaris, Military Manakin, Nat. Misc. pi. 849. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxv. 

 Shaic's Zool. x. p. 16. pi. 3. 



IN this the crown, lower part of the back, and rump, are crimson ; 

 through the eye, the nape, and to the middle of the back, black ; 

 shoulders the same; sides of the neck, and all beneath white; the 

 rest of the wings dusky; scapulars olive ; tail black, with the two 

 middle feathers elongated to twice the length of the others ; bill and 

 legs pale brown. — Inhabits South America. 



7.— WHITE-FRONTED MANAKIN. 



Pipra serena, fnd. Orn. ii. 556. Lin. i. 340. Gm. Lin. i. 1002. Act. Petr. xi. 433. 



t. 15. 5. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 26. 

 Manacus alba fronte, Bris. iv. 457. t. 36. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 172. 



