I 7° THE natural history 
The LITTLE MAN A KIN. 
.the plumage is grey, the head black, fpotted with white. 
It inhabits India, and is about the fize of a 
Wren. 
The W HITE CAP M ANAKIN. 
The head is white, the general plumage a grey brown. 
It inhabits Brazil and Surinam, frequents reeds, 
and fings pleafmgly. 
The TUNEFUL MANAKIN. 
The forehead is yellow, the crown of the head and neck 
blue; the red of the plumage above, chifky, and black ; the 
lower part of the back, bread, and thighs, orange. 
It inhabits St. Domingo, where it has acquired 
the name of Organift, from its fong, which forms 
a compleat o&ave, in the moft agreeable fuc- 
ceflion of notes. 
It is probably the fame bird mentioned by Du 
Pratz ; its notes, he fays, are fo varied, fo me. 
lidious, and warbled in a fide fo tender, and ex- 
preffive, that thofe who have heard it are kfs cap¬ 
tivated with the fong of the Nightingale. 
Mr. Du Pratz obferves, that it fangperched on 
an oak near the houfe where he lived. 
It 
