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PIPER'RY, a town of Hindooftan, in Candeifh: thirty- 
two miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Chuprah. 
PI'PING, adj. [from pipe. This word is only ufed in 
low language.] Weak; feeble; fickly: from the weak 
voice of the lick : 
I, in this weak and piping time of peace, 
Have no delight to pafs away the time, 
Unlefs to fpy my Ihadow in the fun. Shakefpeare. 
Hot; boiling: from the found of anything that boils. 
It is alfo ufed metaphorically, with hot. —The threadbare 
feoff at devotion piping-hot feemeth to deny any ufe of 
mufic. Whitlock's Mann, of the Eng. —What do you think 
of a nice pretty bit of ox-cheek, piping-hot, and dreffed 
with a little of my own fauce? Goldfmith’s Ejjays. 
The honour thou haft got 
Is fpick fpan new, and piping-hot. Hudibras. 
PI'PING, / The aft of playing on a pipe; the utter¬ 
ance of a fhrill voice. 
PI'PING TREE, a town of Virginia : nine miles eaft 
of Newcaftle. 
PIP'KIN, f. [diminutive of pipe, a large veffel.] A 
fmall earthen boiler.—A pipkin there, like Homer’s tri¬ 
pod, walks. Pope. 
Some officer might giveconfent 
To a large cover’d pipkin in his tent. King. 
PIP'LEY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Baglana coun¬ 
try: fix miles north-weft of Babbel gong.—A town of 
Hindooftan, in the country of Berar: eighteen miles 
north of jaffierabad.—A town of Hindooftan, in the 
country of Bengal, on the borders of Oriifa, on a branch 
of the Ganges, and formerly a place of trade with an 
Engliffi and a Dutch fadtory; but the trade is now 
declined, and the fadlories removed to Hoogly and Cal¬ 
cutta : twenty-two miles north-eaft of Balafore, and 
eighty-two fouth-fouth-weft of Calcutta. 
PIPPA'RAH, a town of Hindooftan, inOude: forty- 
two miles north-weft of Lucknow.—Another forty-eight 
miles eaft of Bahraitch. 
PIP'PIN, / [puppynghe, Dutch.] A {harp apple.— 
Pippins take their name from the fmall fpots or pips that 
ufually appear on the fides of them : fome are called ftone 
pippins from their obduratenefs; fome Kentiffi pippins, 
becaufe they agree well with that foil; others French 
pippins, having their original from France, which is the 
beft bearer of any of thef e pippins ; the Holland pippin 
and the rufiet pippin, from its rulfet hue; but fuch as are 
diftinguiffied by the names grey and white pippins are of 
equal goodnefs: they are generally a very pleafant fruit 
and of good juice, but {lender bearers. Mortimer. —You 
{hall fee mine orchard, where, in an arbour, we will eat a 
laft-year’s pippin of my own grafting. Shakefpeare. —En¬ 
tertain yourielf with a pippin roafted. Harvey. 
His foaming tulks let fome large pippin grace, 
Or midft thofe thundering fpears an orange place. King. 
This pippin (hall another trial make; 
See from the core two kernels brown I take. Gay. 
PFPRA, f. the Manakin; in ornithology, a genus of 
birds of the order pafleres. Generic charadters —Bill 
fliort, ltrong, hard, nearly triangular at the bafe, and 
{lightly incurved at the tip ; the noltrils are moftly naked ; 
the feet formed for walking ; tail ftiort. 
Thefe birds inhabit the warm parts of the American 
continent,' and many of them are very beautiful. They 
fly with confiderable fwiftnefs, but always at a fmall 
height, and to fliort diftances; they never perch on the 
fummits of trees, but on the middle branches; they feed 
upon fmall wild fruits, and infedts. They generally 
occur in fmall bodies of eight or ten of the lame fpecies, 
and fometimes intermingled with other flocks of the fame 
genus. It is commonly in the morning that they are 
found thus aflembled, and then feem to be joyous, and 
warble their delicate little notes ; the freflinefs of the air 
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feems to infpire their fong, for they are filent during the 
burning heat of the day, and difperfe and retire to the 
ffiade of the thickeft parts of the foreft. This habit is 
obferved indeed in many kinds of birds attached to the 
woods, where they colledt to ling in the morning and 
eveningbut the manakins never alienable in the evening, 
and continue together only from fun-rife to nine or ten 
o’clock in the forenoon, and remain feparate during the 
reft of the day and the fucceeding night. In general 
they prefer a cool humid fituation, though they never 
frequent marfhes or the margins of lakes. The name of 
manakin was bellowed on thefe birds by the Dutch fet- 
tlers at Surinam, who firft noticed them. There are 
thirty fpecies now known, befides varieties. 
1. Pipra rupicola, the crefted manakin, or cock of the 
rock : creft eredt, edged with purple; body faffron; tail- 
coverts truncate. This elegant bird is about the fize of 
a.fmall pigeon, and is confidered as one of the moll beau¬ 
tiful of South America. It is of a very rich yellowifti 
faft’ron-colour; the head furniffied with a femicircular 
creft, confining of a double feries of filky feathers, placed 
longitudinally, and margined with purple; the wing- 
coverts are loofe and fringed; quill-feathers, part white, 
part brown ; tail-feathers, twelve in number; the bafe- 
half of the ten middle ones bright orange, from thence 
to the ends brown; the outer ones brown, with the bafe- 
half of the inner web orange; all of them fringed at the 
ends; the upper tail-coverts are very long, loofely webbed, 
truncated or fquare at the ends; legs and claws yellow. 
It is reprefented on the preceding Plate, at fig. 3. 
The female is wholly brown, except the under wing- 
coverts, which are of a rufous-orange; and the creft is 
neither fo lofty nor rounded as in the male. Both males 
and females are at firft grey, or of a very pale yellow, 
inclining to brown : the male does not acquire its bright 
colours till the fecond year, neither does the female her 
full brown. 
This fpecies inhabits various parts of Surinam, Cay¬ 
enne, or Guiana, in elevated or rocky fituations : but is 
no-where fo frequent as in the mountain Luca, near the 
river Oyapoc, and in the mountain Courouaye, near the 
river Aprouack ; where they build in the cavernous hol¬ 
lows, and the darkeft recedes. They lay two white eggs, 
about the fize of thofe of a pigeon ; and make their nelt, 
like the wood-pigeon, of a few dried flicks. They are in 
general very ffiy, and difficult to take: yet have been 
frequently tamed, fo as to run among poultry. It is faid 
that the female, after {he has laid eggs for fome years, and 
ceafes to be prolific, becomes at the enfuing moult of the 
fame colour as the male, and may be miftaken for him ; 
imitating, in this refpedt, the females of various other 
birds. They are much efteemed for their rich and beau¬ 
tiful plumage, and are very fcarce and dear. 
( 3 . P. Peruviana, the Peruvian manakin: larger and 
longer, efpecially in the tail; the upper coverts not trun¬ 
cated at the ends; the wing-coverts not fringed, as in the 
preceding; and the creft not fo well defined. The ge¬ 
neral colourinclines to red ; the fecond coverts and rump 
affi-colour; wings and tail black. Found in the country 
about Peru. Dr. Turton makes it a diftindt fpecies; but 
Monf. Vaillant fays it belongs to a different genus, and 
does not feed on infedts. 
2. Pipra pareola, the blue-backed manakin: creft 
blood-red ; body black ; back blue. About the fize of a 
fparrow; 4I inches long. The bill is dufky; iridesblue ; 
general colour of the plumage black, except the back and 
fmaller wing-coverts, which are of a verditer blue. The 
top of the head has the feathers elongated, forming a 
creft, flat on the top, and indented in the middle at the 
back part, and may be eredted at the will of the bird ; the 
colour of the crelt is a glowing crimfon ; legs red. See 
the Plate, fig. 4. 
The young birds are at firft green all over, except the 
creft, which is crimfon, but lets bright: this we are 
allured of from now and then meeting with birds with 
mixed 
