■WHITE-FACED MANAKIK. 
pellation of the Cinereous Bird of Guiana, 
seems equally a kindred species of the Ant- 
Eaters with our White-Faced Manakin. 
They form, perhaps, part of an intermediate 
genus, 
Edwards, an his plate of the Black-Capped 
Man akin, figures also his White-Capped Ma- 
li a kin. The legs and feet of this last bird, he 
says, are made as in the other Manakins, and 
of a black colour. BufFon, by whom the 
same bird is denominated the Middle- Bill with 
White Crest and Throat, and who observes 
that Edwards first described it, tells us, that 
the legs are of an orange-yellow. 
The fact is, that Edwards thus describes the 
legs' of the Black-Capped Manakin ; which 
BufFon might seem to have mistaken for those 
of the White-Capped Manakin, described by 
Edwards in the same page, as well as figured 
on the same plate : yet, as BufFon minutely 
notices the dimensions of the bird, in all it's 
parts, which Edwards has not done, he 
must either have derived his account from 
some other author ; examined a real specimen ; 
or 
