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Manakins verschiedener Art
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Birds XLIX. Vol. IV. No. 11., MANAKINS OF DIFFERENT KINDS., The Manakins, of which we see here six different sorts represented, are a numerous, beautiful species of wood birds. They are met with in South-America and the adjacent Islands, where they only inhabit the recesses of the woods, without ever appearing on the cultivated Land. They live on insects and wild fruits. In the morning they wander, in little flights of eight or ten together, from one part of the wood to the other. They resemble very much our titmice in their quickness and vivacity of jumping and seeking their food from branch to branch, but are generally of a larger size. Their singing, except that of the tuneful Manakin, is only an indistinct, inarticulate Chirping. The name of Manakin was given them by the Hollanders in Surinam., Fig. 1. The tuneful Manakin. (Pipra musica.), This Manakin is called tuneful for its sweet and pleasant singing, which many travellers prefer to that of our Nightingals. It lives in the woods of St. Domingo, and is commonly four inches long. Its beautiful plumage of black, dark blue, and orange colour'd feathers, is not less remarkable then its melodious Tune of Voice., Fig. 2. The blue backed Manakin. (Pipra pareola.), Is of a larger size than the tuneful. It inhabits the Island of Cuba, Brazil and Cayenne. The ground colour of its feathers is a shining black. On the back it has a kind of cover of light blue feathers. Its head is ornamented with a beautiful plume of crimson feathers which it can raise and lay down at pleasure., Fig. 3. The black capped Manakin. (Pipra manacus.), This little lively bird which is of the size of our sparrows, lives in the lofty woods of Guiana in South-America and feeds on insects, chiefly ants. Its feathers are white, grey, and black., Fig. 4. The black crown'd Manakin. (Pipra atricapilla.), The black crown'd or ash grey Manakin lives also in Guiana, but is of a larger size than the former species. The mixture of its feathers is grey and yellowish., Fig. 5. The gold headed Manakin. (Pipra erythrocephala.), Fig. 6. The red and black Manakin. (Pipra aureola.), These two little charming Manakins inhabit also Guiana. They never exceed the length of three inches., No. 4. is entirely black, except its gold colour'd head, whence the name is deriv'd., N. 5. is still more beautiful for its burning orange yellow plumage. Its bill and feet are red, the wings have a few white stripes.
