diff --git a/libpng-manual.txt b/libpng-manual.txt
index 1b1abcdf8..15a3c1a51 100644
--- a/libpng-manual.txt
+++ b/libpng-manual.txt
@@ -1654,13 +1654,14 @@ color.  The function takes two arguments, background_gamma_mode and need_expand
 to convey this information, however only two combinations are likely to be
 useful:
 
-    png_color_16p image_background, my_background;
+    png_color_16 my_background;
+    png_color_16p image_background;
 
     if (png_get_bKGD(png_ptr, info_ptr, &image_background))
        png_set_background(png_ptr, image_background,
            PNG_BACKGROUND_GAMMA_FILE, 1/*needs to be expanded*/, 1);
     else
-       png_set_background(png_ptr, my_background,
+       png_set_background(png_ptr, &my_background,
            PNG_BACKGROUND_GAMMA_SCREEN, 0/*do not expand*/, 1);
 
 The second call was described above - my_background is in the format of the
diff --git a/libpng.3 b/libpng.3
index 51da7fdb9..4b3da9ae8 100644
--- a/libpng.3
+++ b/libpng.3
@@ -2609,13 +2609,14 @@ color.  The function takes two arguments, background_gamma_mode and need_expand
 to convey this information, however only two combinations are likely to be
 useful:
 
-    png_color_16p image_background, my_background;
+    png_color_16 my_background;
+    png_color_16p image_background;
 
     if (png_get_bKGD(png_ptr, info_ptr, &image_background))
        png_set_background(png_ptr, image_background,
            PNG_BACKGROUND_GAMMA_FILE, 1/*needs to be expanded*/, 1);
     else
-       png_set_background(png_ptr, my_background,
+       png_set_background(png_ptr, &my_background,
            PNG_BACKGROUND_GAMMA_SCREEN, 0/*do not expand*/, 1);
 
 The second call was described above - my_background is in the format of the