PLATE XX. 



PiPRA Punctata. Greyish brown, waved with dusky: top of 



the head and wings black speckled with white ; 

 tail coverts red. Speckled Manakin. Nat, 

 Miscell. 111. 



Pakdalotus (punctatus) Vieillot, Ornith, Elem. p, 31. 



This pretty little species of Manakin is one among the number 

 of those numerous acquisitions in the science of Natural History, for 

 which the Naturalist is indebted to the prolific regions of Australasia. 

 The very close affinity which it bears to the Gmelinian Pipra Naevia, 

 a species described originally by Buff on under the title of Fourmilier 

 tachete de Cayenne^ may possibly have occasioned some confusion 

 among authors respecting this individual species, but there are still, 

 if we mistake not, sufficient indications of the two birds being speci- 

 fically distinct. This was the opinion of the late Dr. Shaw : he 

 constituted a new species of the bird before us under the name of 

 Pipra Punctata, and the english trivialof Speckled Manakin, 

 and we are induced to follow that example from a persuasion that 

 his conclusion was correct. Pipra Naevia, to which it is so nearly 

 allied, has the throat and chin black, and the breast spotted with 

 black : Pipra Punctata, on the contrary, has the throat and breast 

 yellow, without any black spots. These differences afford a conspi- 

 cuous distinction of the two birds, besides which, there are some others 

 of less consideration that will appear upon an attentive comparison. 



As a new species, it appears, therefore, pretty certain that we 

 have to acknowledge the late Dr. Shaw as the first author by whom 



