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WHITE-FACED MANAKIN. 



Length three and a half inches: beak red: 

 head crested, and of a beautiful yellow colour: 

 rest of the body and wings of a fine purple : tail 

 red. Inhabits Mexico and Brazil. 



WHITE-FACED MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra albifrons. ) 



Pi. crista alba, corpore rubro testaceo, dor so nigro, guttufe alio 



nigra marginato,Jemoribus ccerulescentibus, 

 Manakin with a white crest; body beneath testaceous; back 



black ; throat white, margined with black ; thighs blue. 

 ' Pipra albifrons. Lin, Syst. Nat. 1. 339. 5. — Gmel, Syst, Nat, 



1.1000. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 560, 21. 

 Le demi-fin a huppe et gorge blanches. Biif, Hist. Nat, Ois, 



5. 335. 



Le Plumet blanc. Buf. Hist, Nat. Ois. 4. 429. 

 Le Manicup de Cayenne. Buf. PI. Enl. 707. !• 

 White-faced Manakin. Edwards. 344. — Lath. Gen. Si/n. 4. 

 530. 18.— 531. 18. A. 



Above five inches in length : beak black : head 

 with a white cre»t, composed of long pointed 

 feathers : supercilia white ; throat and between 

 the eyes the same ; surrounded with black all 

 round from eye to eye : hind part of the neck, 

 middle of the back, and wings, blackish ash-colour : 

 rest of the body and tail orange, inclining to cin- 

 namon colour: thighs dusky: legs reddish yellow. 



BufFon describes a variety of this bird, which 

 he says is distinct, but there does not appear suf- 

 ficient grounds to warrant the conclusion : its 



