*W H I T E - F A C E D MAN A KIN. 
or measured the figure of Edwards, by whom 
it was originally represented of it's natural 
size. We rather incline to think, that our 
last suggestion has actually been the case, than 
that he had inspected a specimen which dif- 
fered in this respect from the bird described 
by Edwards. 
Buffon also makes the bill of the White- 
Capped Manakin black ; which Edwards, 
with his usual precision, informs us "is of a 
dark brown colour. " He, too, mentions, that 
" the base of the upper mandible has a nar- 
row list of black feathers round it.;" which 
Buffon entirely omits to notice. 
