POMPADOUR. 
I. HE name Pompadour, which vvas given by- 
Edwards to the bird figured in the annexed 
print, has not only been adopted, by Linnsus, 
and other naturalists, but is become the gene^ 
'ral appellation of a species. The Pompadour 
of Edv/ards, is the Ampelis Pompadora, of 
■Linnaeus; the Pacapac, Pompadour, or Pom- 
padour Chatterer, of BufFon ; the Cotinga 
Purpurea, of Brisson; and the Turdus Pu- 
niceus, of Pallas. 
** It is," says Edwards, "of that family 
of birds I have called Manakins. The 
ne-arest European bird, that I know of, that 
'will class with this American tribe, is the 
Garrulus Bohemicus. It agrees with them in 
the size, shape of the bill, and shortness of the 
tail ; and, more particularly, with the species 
under described, in that each of them- have 
a great singularity, though very difrerentr, in 
the tips of the first row of cOvert-feathers of 
the wings above the quills : this has thefii 
|)ointedj stiff, and almost horny , at their tips ^ 
the 
