228 MANAKIN. 



Inhabits South America, but the places not mentioned, though 

 it has several times been brought alive into Europe. We are how- 

 ever told, that it is not found in Guiana ; but has been received from 

 Cayenne. 



13.— GREEN-HEADED MANAKIN.— Pl. cvm. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill 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 very 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 outer and middle toes united at 

 the base ; the under tail coverts nearly as long as the tail. 



In the collection of Lord Stanley. Native place uncertain ; sup- 

 posed to be from South America. 



14— RED AND BLACK MANAKIN. 



Pipra aureola, Ind. Orn.M. 558. Lin. i. 339. Mus. Ad. Fr. ii. 32,* Gm. Lin. i. 1001. 



Spalowsch. i. t. 3S. Nat. Misc. t. 249. 

 Parus aureola, Syst. Nat. x. 191. 

 Passer Americanus alis nigris, Gerin. iii. t. 360. 1. 

 Avicula, forte Surinamensis, nigro rubroq. mixta, Pet. Gaz. t. 46. 12. 

 Manacus ruber, Bris. iv. 452. t. 34. 5. Id. 8vo. ii. 170. 



Le Manakin rouge, Buf. iv. 415/ Pl. enl. 34. 3. Desm. Manak. pl. 54, 55, 56, 57. 

 Red and Black Manakin, Gen. Syn. iv. 525. Edw. pl. 261. 2. Shaw's Zool. x. p. 22. 



. LENGTH four inches. Bill black, the base surrounded with 

 orange ; head, neck, throat, and breast, crimson ; the rest of the 



