OF BIRDS. 
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concert a little note, at fbort interval?, though 
not pleafing in itfelf. It is often grateful to tra¬ 
vellers, bewildered in the vaft forefts of Guiana, 
for when they hear the cry of thefe birds, they 
are certain that water is near. 
The BLACK CAP MAN AKIN. 
The crown 2 nd hind part of the head is black the chin, 
fore -part of the neck, and under parts of the body white, 
thefe white feathers palling round the neck form a ring. 
The red of the plumage is black, except a white fpot or 
each wing. 
Like other Manakins they occafionally live in 
little companies, but do not mix with birds of 
different fpecies. 
1 he cry they utter refembles that which is 
made by the little inftrument we ufe in cracking 
nuts, from which circumflance Mr. Buffon has 
given it the name of the Nut-cracker. They 
are very fprightly, and ablive, feldom in a ftate 
of repole, but frifking from branch to branch, 
without flying to any confiderable difiance. 
A variety of this genus, without the white fpot 
on each wing, frequents the neighbourhood of 
ants nefts ; thefe little birds are obferved to fpriug 
occafionally from the ground, uttering a flneuiir 
cry, probably in confequence of their leg's being 
flung by the ants. 
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