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GOLD-BREASTED MANAKIN. 



DESMARETS MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra Desmaretii.) 



Pi. cceruleo-atra, nitens, ventre albido ; crisso, gula, pectoreque 

 coccineis. 



Shining blue-black Manakin, with a whitish belly, and scarlet 



vent, throat, and breast. 

 Pipra Desmaretii. Leach. Zool. Misc. 1. 94. pL 41. 

 Desmaretian Manakin. Leach. Zool, Misc. 1. Q4. 



This beautiful little species has all the upper 

 parts of the body of a beautiful shining blue black : 

 cheeks dusky : quills dusky blue above, and black 

 beneath : throat, breast, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts, crimson : belly with a blackish longitu- 

 dinal streak, bounded with pale yellow: sides 

 dusky : beak and legs black : length about three 

 inches and a half. 



Discovered by M. A. Huey, in New Holland, 

 where it is extremely scarce. 



GOLD-BREASTED MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra pectoralis.) 



Pi. cceruleo-nigra^ abdomine Jerrugineo, lunula pectoris aurea. 

 Blue-black Manakin, with a ferruginous abdomen, and goldeit 



lunule on the breast. 

 Pipra pectoralis. Lath, Ind. Orn» Sup, hit, 6. 

 Gold-breasted Manakin. Lath, Syn, Sup, Add. II, 3^4, 



