Within the days when color printing was extraordinarily costly, the Avicultural Society had particular appeals for funds to help the looks in Avicultural Journal of the occasional color plate. A widely known fowl artist was then commissioned. Though the entire run of the Society’s magazines may be discovered on-line, the plates hardly ever see the sunshine of day. Due to this fact I made a decision to point out one, every now and then, on this website. That is the fifteenth within the sequence.
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The plate was the work of John Raymond Quinn (1938-2012). He was employees artist on the Academy of Pure Sciences of Philadelphia.
The article accompanying this plate was written by Jan Roger van Ooosten (1934-2005) who described his efforts to maintain the 2 species of manakin in captivity after trapping them in Ecuador. An novice aviculturalist he turned director of Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle in 1971-1974 after working for Texaco. He developed a selected curiosity in Amazon parrots.
The Golden-headed manakin (now Ceratopipra erythrocephala) and Golden-winged Manakin (Masius chrysopterus), like the remainder of the household, are identified for his or her shows throughout lekking. We noticed round 5 males of the previous species in Guyana in 2006, making some effort at a show however not the full-blown spectacle.
Avicultural Journal Vol 75, 1969