manakin

Any of several small Central and South American passerine birds of the family Pipridae.

Alternative form of manikin.

18??, James Napier, Folk Lore: Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland Within This Century After a time, he was surprised to see the hopper beginning to go, and, looking up, he saw a little manakin holding a little cappie in his hand and filling it at the hopper.