. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. C 327 3. STEDT^J-'^^'^^^*''* The M A N A K I N S. Pipra, Linn. THESE birds are fmall and handfome; the largeft are not equal in fize to a Sparrow, and the others are inferior to that of the Wren. The general chara<flers are thefe: the bill is fhort, ftrait, and comprefled on the fides near tlie tip; the upper-mandible is convex above, and flightly fcallopped on the edges, rather longer than the lower-mandibk, which is plain and ftraight. In all thefe birds, the tai
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. C 327 3. STEDT^J-'^^'^^^*''* The M A N A K I N S. Pipra, Linn. THESE birds are fmall and handfome; the largeft are not equal in fize to a Sparrow, and the others are inferior to that of the Wren. The general chara<flers are thefe: the bill is fhort, ftrait, and comprefled on the fides near tlie tip; the upper-mandible is convex above, and flightly fcallopped on the edges, rather longer than the lower-mandibk, which is plain and ftraight. In all thefe birds, the tail is fliort ;md fquare- cut, and the toes ha^e the fame difpofition as the Cock of the Rock, the Tody, and the Calao, viz. the mid-toe is clofely connedted to the outer-toe by a membrane, as far as the third joint, and the inner-toe as far as the firll joint only. But as much as in that circumilance they refemble the Cock of the Rock, fo much arc they removed from the Cotingas: yet fome authors have ranged the Manakins with the Cotingas* ; others have joined them with the Spirrows f* with the Titmice J, with the Lin- nets §, with thcTanagres ||, and with the Wren^; * Edwards. t Klein. J Linnxnis. § Klein. II Marcgrave, Willughby, Johnllon, Salerne, &c. ^ Gerini. Y 4 ' other â p. fi;i'U,%» â r['. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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