224 MANAKIN. 



Le Manakin varie, Buf. iv. 423. pi. 19. f. 1. Desm. Manak. pi. 62. 64. 

 Manakin a front blanc de Cayenne, PL enl. 324. 1. 

 White-fronted Manakin, Gen. Syn.'w. 521. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 26. 



SIZE of a Wren; length three inches and a half. Bill half an 

 inch, black ; feathers of the crown black at the base, then blue, and 

 tipped with white on the forehead, forming a white spot; the rest of 

 the crown appearing blue ; the remaining part of the head, neck, 

 breast, upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, of a velvety, bluish 

 black ; rump blue ; belly, thighs, and vent, fine orange ; legs black. 



The young male is olive-green above, and yellowish green beneath, 

 with a spot of yellow on the breast ; over the base of the bill grey ; 

 rump light green. 



Inhabits Cayenne and Guiana, but is not common. I observed 

 one of these in the collection of Mr. Francillon, in which the fore- 

 head was white, but the crown black, with no appearance of blue ; 

 down the middle of the breast, and the whole of the belly, pale orange ; 

 thighs black. This was said to have come from South America, but 

 without any account whether it differed in sex, or was a young bird. 



8 —BLACK-CAPPED MANAKIN. 



Pipra Manacus, Ind. Orn. ii. 556. Lin. 340. Gm. Lin. i. 1002. Bris. iv. 442. Id. 



8vo. ii. 168. 

 Avicula Americana, Gerin. iv. t. 371. — lower figure. 

 Le Casse Noisette, Buf. iv. 413. 

 Manakin du Bresil, PI. enl. 302. 1. 

 Black-capped Manakin, Gen. Syn. iv. 521. Edw. pi. 260. 1. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 27. 



LARGER than the last ; length more than four inches. Bill 

 black; crown and hindhead black; chin, fore part of the neck, and 

 under the body, white ; which, passing round the lower part of the 

 neck, forms a ring ; on the wings a white spot ; the rest of the 

 plumage dull black ; legs orange. 



