
concert 2 a little note, at fhort intervals, though 
ot pleafing i in itfelf. It is.often grateful to tra- 
igi bewildered in the vaft forefts of Guiana, 
for when they hear the cry of thefe birds, they 
al 
4 are certain that water is near. 
Tus BLACK CAP MANAKIN. 
a a, crown and hind part of the head is black; the chin, 
oo of the neck, and under parts of the body white, 





e -thefe white feathers pafling round the neck form aring. 
| The ref of the plumage is black, except a wine fpot on 
each wing. 
Like other Manakins they occafionally Jive in 
little companies, but do not mix with birds of 
q hala {oecies.. 
The cry they utter refembles that which is 
inde by the little inftrument we ufe in cracking 
4 “nuts, from which circumftance Mr. Buffon has - 
a given it’ the name of the Nut-cracker. They 
a very {prightly, and ative, feldom in a ftate 
" oh repole, but frifking from branch to branch, 
3 without flying to any confiderable difance. 
a A variety of this genus, without the white {pot 
on each wing, frequents the neighbourhocd of 
ants nefts ; thefe little birds are obferved to {pring 
0c« alionall y from the ground, uttering a fingular 
1; o in coniequence of their “— nen 







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