LONG-TAILED MANAKIN. 



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Dark-coloured Manakin, with the crown ornamented with long 

 flaming red feathers; the back between the wings with a 

 pale blue lunated space ; primary quills brownish. 



Pipra superba. Gmel, Syst, Nat. 1. 999. — Lath. IncL Orn, 1. 

 556. 4. 



Manacus superbus. Pall. Spei. 1.6. t. 3.JI 1. 

 Superb Manakin. Lath. Syn. Sup. 252. 1, 



This bird appears to have a great affinity to the 

 preceding, which it very much resembles : it is 

 of the same size : its beak is bhick ; and the pre- 

 vailing colour of the plumage is the same : back 

 pale blue : crown of the head with a bright red 

 crest : primary quills brown : tail short : legs yel- 

 lowish. May not this be a variety of Pipra 

 pareola ? 



LONG-TAILED MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra caudata.) 



Pr. cceruleOf vertice suhcristato coccineo, alts nigriSf rectricibus 



duahus intermediis elongato-acuminatis. 

 Blue Manakin. with the crown ornamented with a crimson crest; 



wings black, with. the two middle tail-feathers elongate and 



acuminated. 



Pipra caudata. Shatv. Nat. Misc. 5. l53.^Lath. Ind. Om. Sup. 

 II, Ivii. 4. 



Long-tailed Manakin. Shatv. Nat. Misc. 153. — Lath. Syn. Svp. 

 II. 254. 7. 



Described as the size of the blue-backed Ma- 

 nakin, which it has somewhat the habit of; the 

 prevailing colour being a fine blue, glossed with 



