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SPECKLED MANAKIN. 



Described by Dr. Latham, from a specimen in 

 the possession of Sir Joseph Banks, as follows : 

 " length four inches and a half : beak brown : 

 crown of the head and nape black, with a stripe 

 of white down the shafts of each feather: hind 

 part of the neck and back of a brownish ash- 

 colour, inclining to olive near the rump : between 

 the beak and eye a deep yellow spot : the wing- 

 coverts are brownish : the bastard wings tipped 

 with white, and some of the outer coverts tipped 

 with yellow, making an oblique band near the 

 outer edge of the wing: the quills dusky; the 

 third shorter in proportion than any of the others, 

 being a quarter of an inch shorter than the second, 

 though all the others are of the usual length : the 

 under parts of the bird are yellowish, growing 

 very pale near the vent : under tail-coverts are 

 bufF-colour: the tail black; very short: the outer 

 feather tipped with white : legs dusky." Supposed 

 to inhabit Van Dieman's Land. 



SPECKLED MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra punctata.) 



Pi. griseaJuscOf undulatay vertice alisque nigris cilbopunctatis, tec* 



tricibus caudce ruhris. 

 Grey Manakin, waved with brown, with the crown and wings 



black, spotted with white, tail- coverts red. 

 Pipra punctata. Shaw. Nat. Misc. p. ill. --Lath, Ind, Orn, 



Sup, Ivi. 1. 



Speckled Manakin . Shatjo. Nat. Misc, III .^Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 

 253. 4. 



This variable species is a native of New Hoi- 

 land. In one specimen mentioned by Dr. Latham, 



