MANAKIN. 237 



29— STRIPED-HEADED MANAKIN— Pl. cix. 



Pipra striata, Tnd. Orn. ii. 558. Gm. Lin. i. 1003. 

 Lanius fuscus, Shaw's Zool. vii. 326. fem. Nat. Misc. pl. 174. 

 Pardalote, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. Ixv. 



Striped-headed Manakin, Gen. Syn. iv. 526. pl. 54. Id. Sup. 188. Shaiv's Zool. x. 

 p. 29. pl. 4. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill brown ; crown of the 

 head and nape black, each feather marked with a stripe of white 

 down the middle ; hind part of the neck and back brownish ash- 

 colour, inclining to olive near the rump ; between the bill and eye a 

 deep yellow spot ; wing coverts brownish ; bastard wing tipped with 

 white, and some of the outer coverts with yellow, making an oblique 

 mark near the outer edge of the wing ; the quills dusky ; the third 

 shorter than the rest, wanting a quarter of an inch of the length of 

 the second, though all the others are as usual ; the under parts of the 

 bird are yellowish, very pale near the vent ; under tail coverts buff- 

 colour; tail black, very short, the outer feather tipped with white; 

 the rest white within at the tips ; legs dusky. 



A. — Lanius fuscus, Gm. Lin.'u 308. Lid. Orn. ii. 559. 13. /3. 

 Brown Shrike, Gen. Syn. i. 191. 



Size of a Manakin. Bill horn-colour, with a black tip; upper 

 parts of the plumage brown, beneath white; between the bill and 

 eye yellowish ; secondaries with yellowish tips ; the edges of the 

 greater quills the same, forming two narrow bars on the wings ; the 

 legs are black. 



These inhabit the most southern parts of New-Holland, and are 

 most probably male and female; the former from Van Diemen's 

 Land. I find it described in the papers of the late Mr. Anderson, 

 at Sir Joseph Banks's, in much the same manner as above ; but he 



