ORNITHOLOGY. 



this interesting bird was introduced to the knowledge of the learned 

 world : he describes it, as before observed, under the name of Pipra 

 punctata. M. Vieillot is consequently in an error when he refers to 

 authority of Dr. Latham for this name. The bird was so designated 

 in the first instance, in the work entitled the Natw^alisfs Miscellany, 

 written by Dr. Shaw ; nor was the species mentioned by Dr. Latham 

 either in his Synopsis or his Index Ornithologicus. In a final or 

 second supplement published by Dr. Latham long after the Synopsis, 

 we find the bird mentioned under the name of tlie Speckled Manakin, 

 but only upon the authority of the Naturalist's Miscellany of Shaw, 

 and a drawing of the bird by General Davies, for at that late period 

 even, the bird appears to be unknown to Dr. Latham, except upon 

 those two authorities. This observation is the more material since 

 the Ornithologist M. Vieillot in dividing the Linnaean Genus Pipra 

 into two Genera, Pardalotus and Pipra, assigns for the type of his 

 genus Pardalotus the Pipra punctata'''' of Latham, at the same 

 time, as we have already shewn, the works of Dr. Latham affords us 

 no such name. The present species was described under the appel- 

 lation of Pipra punctata only by Dr. Shaw. Dr. Latham does not 

 adopt this name, he records the species only under the trivial english 

 name of the Speckled Manakin, which name had also been assigned 

 before by Dr. Shaw. If, therefore, the name of Pipra punctata had 

 occurred to M. Vieillot, it must have been in the work of Dr. Shaw, 

 and not of Dr. Latham. Perhaps Vieillot had inadvertently ima • 

 gined this Speckled Manakin to be the same as the Spotted Manakin 

 of Dr. Latham's Synopsis. If this be really the source of error, it 

 inay be added, that this latter bird appears to have been described by 

 Dr. Latham upon the authority only of Planches Enluminees, and 

 is no other than Pipra Nsevia of Gmelio^ as Dr. Latham has himself 

 pointed out in his Index Ornithologicus. 



