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PERUVIAN MANAKIN. 



South America in rocky situations, and builds its 

 nest, in dark sequestered recesses, of dry bits of 

 stick, laying two round white eggs : it is a shy 

 bird. The female is said by Salerne to assume 

 the plumage of the male in the ensuing moult 

 after having ceased to lay, in the same manner as 

 many of the gallinaceous kinds are known to do : 

 both sexes are said to be a year before they arrive 

 at their full plumage. 



PERUVIAN MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra peruviana.) 



Pr. corpore croceo'rubro, tectricibus alarum majonbus cinereis, 

 remigibus caudaque m'gris, tectricibus rectricum non truncatis. 



Manakin with a reddish safFroii- coloured body ; the greater wing- 

 coverts ash-coloured ; quills and tail black, the coverts of the 

 latter not truncated. 



Pipra peruviana. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 555. 2. 



Le Goq-de-roche de Perou. Btiff', Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 437. — 

 Buff: PI. Enl, 745. 



Peruvian Manakin. Lath, Gen, Syn. 4. 5I9. 1. a. 



This species is rather larger than the preceding, 

 which it very much resembles : its head is crested, 

 but the crest is not so well defined : its prevailing 

 colour has more inclination to red: secondary 

 wing-coverts, and rump, cinereous : wings and tail 

 black 5 the upper coverts of the latter not trun- 

 cated at the tips, and of the former not fringed : 

 in other respects it agrees with it. 



According to Buffon, it is a native of Peru. 



