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BLUE-BACKED MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra pareola.) 



Pi. crista sanguinea, corpore nigro, dorso cceruleo, 

 Manakin with a blood-coloured crest, black body, and blue 

 back. 



Pipra pareola. Lin, Spt^Nat. l. 339. 2. — Gmel, Si^st, Nat. 1. 



ggg.-r—Lath. Ind. Oni. 2. 555. 3. 

 Manacus cristatus niger. Briss. 4. 459. 10' 35.^^ 1. 

 Le Tije, ou grand Manakin. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 4. 411. t. IQ* 



Le Manakin noir huppe. Bvff. PI. Enl. 6S7.f. 2. 

 Le Manakin verd huppe de Cayenne. Buff. PL Enl. 303. 2. 

 foem. ? 



Blue-backed Manakin. Edwards. 2Q\.f. 1. — Lath. Gen, Syn, 

 4. 520. 2, 



Length four and a half inches: beak dusky: 

 arides bright blue : head ornamented with a few 

 elongated feathers of a bright crimson colour, 

 which can be elevated at pleasure : back and lesser 

 wing-coverts blue: the rest of the plumage black: 

 legs red : size of the House Finch : female and 

 young bird with the whole of the plumage (the 

 crest excepted) green. This species inhabits Cuba 

 and part of South America. 



SUPERB MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra superba.) 



Pi. aterrima, 'verticis mediis plumis longiusculis ex Jiammeo rubriSf 

 dorsi inter alas area lunata dilute ccerulea, remigibus primori' 

 bus fuscescentibus. 



