Head furnished with a flattened semicircidar crest, 



ROCK MANAKIN. 

 (Pipra rupicola. ) 



Pi. crista erecta margine purpurea, corpore croceo,tectricibns rec' 



tricmn ti'uncatis. 

 Manakin with an erect crest with a purplish margin, safFron- 



coloured body, and truncated tail-coverts. 

 Pipra rupicola. Lin. Syst. Nat, 1. 338. 1. — GmeL St/st. Nat» 



1. gg8,—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 554. 1. 

 Coq-de-roche. Briss. 4. 437. t. 34. f. 1. — Buff, Hist. Nat, Ois, 



4. 432. 20. — Buff, PI. Enl. 3g. male. 747. female. 

 Hoopoe Hen. Edwards, 264, (caput.) 

 Crested Manakin. Fen, Gen, Birds, 64, Jl 10. 

 Rock Manakin. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 518. 1. 



The Crested or Rock Manakin is the size of 

 a middle-sized Pigeon ; being about a foot in 

 length : beak yellowish ; above an inch long : 

 head with a flattened semicircular crest : pre- 

 vailing colour of the plumage saffron-orange : 

 quills part white, part brown ; their coverts loose 

 and fringed : upper tail-coverts long, slightly 

 webbed, and truncated at the end : base of the 

 ten inner tail-feathers orange, tips brown ; outer 

 feathers orange on the inner web at the base, the 

 other part brown ; all the feathers margined with 

 orange : legs, and claws, yellow : female entirely 

 brown, except the wing-coverts, which are rufous 

 orange : slightly crested : young bird of a yel- 

 lowish brown colour, or grey. 



This elegant species is found in many parts of 



