256 



PIPRID^. 



Manakin above blue, beneath yellow ; with the head, neck, and 



breast green ; the quills brown edged with green. 

 Green-headed Manakin. Lath. Gen, Hist, v, vii. p. 228. pL cviii. 



** Length four inches : beak stout, dusky-black : 

 head, neck, and breast fine pale grass-green : neck 

 behmd, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts fine blue : 

 beneath, from the breast, vent, and under tail-coverts, 

 fine golden-yellow : quills dusky edged with green : 

 wing-coverts green, changing in some lights to blue : 

 tail short, a trifle hollowed out at the end; colour 

 dusky, edged with green ; the coverts reaching half 

 way on it, and the qidlls to the same distance : legs 

 pale brown : the under tail-coverts nearly as long as 

 the tail." 



Sp. 12. Pi. Manacus. Steph. v. x. p. 27 — Manakin goitreux. 



Desmar. Man. 8;c. pi. 58. 

 Sp. 13. Pi. caudata. Steph. v. x^p. 15. 

 Sp. 14. Pi? militaris. Steph. v. x. p. 16. pi. 3. 



GENUS CXXIV.— RUPICOLA, Biisson. 



Rostrum robustum, supri 

 convexum, ad apicem com- 

 pressum ; mcmdibula su- 

 perior emarginata, versus 

 apicem adunca ; inferior 

 recta, acuta. 



Digiti ejcteriores ad medium 

 usque coaliti; pollex lon- 

 giusculus, latus ; unguis 

 posticus fortis, valde adun- 

 cus. 



Beak robust, convex above, 

 compressed at the tip : the 

 upper mandible emargi- 

 nate, hooked towards the 

 tip; the lower straight, 

 acute. 



Outer toes connected to the 

 middle ; hind-toe lengthen- 

 ed, broad ; its claiv strong, 

 much hooked. 



