PURPLE-BREASTED BLUE 
MANAKIN. 
Though, with tlie figure of th ks. verv 
beautiful bird; we have adopted also the name 
of p]d\vards, under which it is Hkewise de- 
scribed by Pennant and Latham, we inchne to 
think, with Buffon, that the Manakins, in ge- 
neral, have been too much confounded, by 
naturahsts, with other tribes; and that this 
bird, in particular, is in reality rather a Cotinga 
than a Manakin. 
These birds,'* says Buffon, jpeajclnjg of . 
the ^lanakips, are small, and- handsome: 
the largest are no,t equal in size to a sparro\y^ 
and the others are inferior to that of ^L wren. 
The general chara6lcrs are these: the bill i? 
short, slender, and compressed on the sides near 
the tip ; the upper mandibje is convex abovc^ 
and slightly scallopetl on the edges, rather 
longer than the lower mandil)le, which is plain 
and straight. In all tlicse birds, the tail is 
short, and ^r|Uarc-cut; and the toes have the 
same 
