PLATE XX. 



The description of this bird, as it occurs in the first instance, in 

 the works of Dr. Shaw, is to this effect. Pipra punctata 

 (Speckled Man akin) grisea, fusco undulatay vertice alisque 

 nigris, albo punciatis tectricibus caudce ruhris. The notice of the 

 species as before-mentioned in Dr. Latham's second Supplement is 

 subsequent to this, and appears only under the trivial name of the 

 Speckled Manakin. 



In adverting to the separation of the Pipra genus as it occurs 

 in the work of M. Vieillot, it will not be amiss to point out precisely 

 those distinctions, which, according to his mode of classification, con- 

 stitute the characters of those two genera into which he has divided 

 them. The first of these genera denominated Pardalotus com- 

 prehends those species of the Pipra genus in which the form of the 

 bill is very short in proportion to its length, a little robust or stout, 

 the base dilated upon the edges, entire, conoid, thick at the point, the 

 upper mandible a little bent, and the lower one convex beneath. Those 

 birds which are allowed to remain in the Pipra genus have the bill 

 conoid, trigonal at the base, compressed at the sides near the end, 

 cut off and curved at the point, the lower mandible turning up at the 

 extremity ; and the exterior toes connected rather beyond the middle. 

 It may be added, finally, that Cuvier, on the contrary, in his Regne 

 Animal, allows the Manakins (Pipra of Linnaeus) to remain united 

 as before. He does not adopt the genus Pardalotus, and this circum- 

 stance is the more worthy of i\ote since we have seen the species 

 arranged in our Museums with the synonymous appellation of 

 "Pardalotus Punctatus Cuvier,*'' and have observed it desig- 

 nated as the type of Cuvier's New Genus Pardalotus. 



This interesting little creature being represented in its natural 

 size in the plate annexed, it will be perceived to be one of the smaller 



