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Thefe birds are common at Guiana, near the fkirts of 
woods: for they do not ufe open places and moift mea¬ 
dows, like many of the genus. They keep together in 
fmall flocks like other manakins, but do not mix with 
them; are often found on the ground, and on low 
branches of trees ; are frequent in the neighbourhood of 
ants-neds, and are obferved to leap up often, on being 
flung by them, as is fuppofed, in the legs, ferting up at 
the fame time a cry, not unlike that of cracking a nut, 
which they repeat often. They are lively birds, very 
refllefs, though not able to fly far at a time. 
20. Pipra minuta, the little manakin : grey; head 
black, fpeckled with white. Size of the gold-creded wren. 
Head marked with round fpots of white ; one fpot on each 
feather; back and wings grey; bread yellowifh, crolTed 
with tranfverfe lines of black ; tail brown, with pale mar¬ 
gins. The male has flefh-coloured lines on the fore part 
of the head, dotted behind with white. Inhabits India. 
ai. Pipra flriata, the flriped-headed manakin: crown 
of the head and nape black, with a flripe of white down 
the fliaft of each feather; hind part of the neck and back 
brown afli-colour, inclining to olive near the rump; be¬ 
tween the bill and eye a deep yellow fpot; wing-coverts 
brownifh; badard wings tipped with white, and fome of 
the outer coverts tipped with yellow, making an oblique 
mark near the outer edge of the wing ; quills dufky ; the 
third fhorter in proportion than any of the others ; under 
parts yellowifh, growing very pale near the vent: under 
tail-coverts buff colour; tail black, very fhort, the outer 
feather tipped with wdiite ; legs dufky. Length, 4^ inches. 
22. Pipra naevia, the fpotted manakin : upper parts of 
the body, quills, and tail, brown ; tip of the tail white ; 
throat and chin black ; the bread and upper part of the 
belly white; bread and fides fpotted with black; two 
white bars on the wings ; and the lower part of the back 
and fome of the inner fecondaries marked with white on 
the outer webs ; lower belly, thighs, and vent, orange ; 
legs pale brown ; outer toe united to the middle one 
aimoll to the tip. Length, four inches. 
23. Pipra leucotis, the white-eared manakin : top of 
the head brown; fides of it, and throat, black; upper 
parts of the body olive and pale rufous mixed; the under, 
to the bread, rufous; the red grey; on each fide of the 
neck is a tuft of glofly white feathers, which are longer 
than the red, and look like ears ; legs brown. The female 
has the chin and throat white: a green dreak from the 
bafe of the bill, pafling beneath the eye, down each fide 
of the neck; this is accompanied by the white ears, as in 
the male; and the red of the plumage is not far different. 
Thefe inhabit Cayenne, Guiana, and feveral other parts 
of South America. 
24. Pipra atricapilla, the black-crowned manakin : 
crown of the head, and bill, black; upper parts of the 
body and tail pale afh-colour; forehead, fides of the head 
beneath the eyes, and all the under parts, greyifli white; 
the greater coverts and quills are dufky black, edged with 
grey. Tail longer than in moll of the fpecies, and fome- 
what cuneiform ; legs pale grey. Inhabits Guiana, but 
is not common. Length, fix inches. 
25. Pipra Papuenfis, the Papuan manakin. This is a 
fmall fpecies, in length only three inches and a quarter : 
bill fhort, and black ; upper part of the head, neck, body, 
wings, and tail, greenifh black; the two middle tail- 
feathers fhorter than the others; the under parts, from 
the chin to the vent, dirty white ; on the bread an ob¬ 
long orange-coloured fpot, which reaches to the belly ; 
legs dufky lead-colour. Inhabits New Guinea. 
26. Pipra hasmorrhea, the crimfon-vented manakin : 
upper parts of the body dufky black; the under white; 
on the vent a remarkable fpot of crimfon. The under 
tail-coverts are white, and reach almoft to the end of the 
tail, which is very fhort; legs brown. Length, 35 inches. 
27. Pipra nigricollis, the black-throated manakin: ge¬ 
neral colour of the plumage on the upper parts bluifh 
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black: throat and vent black; belly white; bill and legs 
brown. Length, four inches. 
28. Pipra Capenfis, the Cape manakin : upper parts 
dufky; beneath pale yellowifh orange ; quills dufky, with 
pale edges ; legs dufky ; bill black. Native of the Cape 
of Good Hope. Size of the preceding. 
29. Pipra cinerea, the cinereous manakin : afh-colour; 
belly whitifh. Length, three inches and a half. 
30. Pipra mufica, the mufical manakin : black ; be¬ 
neath orange; crown blue. Length, four inches. Bill 
dufky; forehead yellow; nape blue; chin, fides of the 
head below the eyes, and throat, black; upper part of 
the back, wings, and tail, dufky black ; lower part of the 
back and rump, bread, belly, vent, and thighs, orange ; 
legs dufky. This bird is indigenous to St. Domingo, 
where it has gained the name of organijl, from its note 
forming the complete oflave in the moll agreeable man¬ 
ner, one note fucceflively after another. Du Pratz fays, 
its notes are fo varied and fweet, and which it warbles fo 
tenderly, that thofe who have heard it value much lefs 
the fong of the nightingale. It is faid to fing for near 
two hours without the lead intermiffion, and, after a res¬ 
pite of about the fame time, begins again. It is faid not 
to be uncommon, but not eafy to be fhot, as, like the 
creeper, it perpetually fhifts to the oppofite part of the 
branch from the fpedlator’s eye, fo as to elude his vigi¬ 
lance. 
PI'PRAH, a town of Hindoodan, in Vifiapour: thir¬ 
teen miles fouth-eafl of Poorunda.—A town of Hindoo¬ 
dan, in Rohilcund : feventeen miles fouth-ead of Buda- 
yoon—A town of Hindoodan, in Oude : thirty-eight 
miles north-north-ead of Manickpour. Lat. 26. N. Ion. 
82. 18. E. 
PIP'RIAC, a town of France, in the department of the 
Ille and Vilaine : ten miles north of Redon, and ten wed 
of Bain. 
PI'PROW, a town of Hindoodan, in the circar of Bo- 
pal : ten miles fouth of Bopaltol. 
PIQ'UANCY, f. [from ■piquant .] Sharpnefs ; tartnefs. 
—Generally we fee the bed and vigorous juices to falute 
our palates with a more agreeable piquancy and tartnefs. 
Evelyns Pomona. —Severity.—Commonly fatirical taunts 
do owe their feeming piquancy, not to the fpeakeror his 
words, but to the fubjeit and the hearers. Barrow's Ser¬ 
mons. 
PIQ'UANT, adj. [French.] Pricking; piercing; fti- 
mulating to the tade.—There are vad mountains of a 
tranfparent rock extremely folid, and as piquant to the 
tongue as fait. Addifon on Italy. —Sharp; tart; pungent; 
fevere.—Some think their wits afleep, except they dart 
out fomewhat that is piquant, and to the quick : that is a 
vein that would be bridled; and men ought to find the 
difference between faltnefs and bitternefs. Bacon's Ejjays. 
—Men make their railleries as piquant as they can, to 
wound the deeper. Gov. of the 2 'ongue. 
PIQ'UANTLY, adv. Sharply; tartly.— A fmall miflake 
may leave upon the mind the lading memory of having 
been piquantly, though wittily, taunted. Locke. 
PIQUE, f. [French.] An ill-will; an offence taken ; 
petty malevolence.—Men take up piques and difplea- 
fures at others, and then every opinion of the difliked 
perfon mud partake of his fate. Decay of Chr. Piety. — 
A depraved appetite. See Pica. 
And though it have the pique, and long, 
’Tis dill for fomething in the wrong; 
As women long, when they’re with child, 
For things extravagant and wild. Hndibras . 
Point; nicety; punflilio: 
Add long prefcription of edablifh’d laws, 
And pique of honour to maintain a cauie, 
And fhame of change. Dryden. 
A term at the game of piquet. One of the black colours 
or 
