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2 supra fusca, plumis omnibus albido terminatis: subtus albida, plumis pectoris et hypochondriorum fuscis, 
albido limbatis ; alis et cauda nigricantibus ; secundariis et tectricibus albido limbatis. (Descr. femine ex 
Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
3 juv. femine similis, plumis maris ceruleis et purpureis huc illuc apparentibus. 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Sallé +), Chimalapa, Tehuantepec (W. B. Richardson); GuatE- 
MALA, Choctum, Coban (F. D. G. & O.S.), Vera Paz (Skinner 2); Costa Rica (Van 
Patten), San José (v. Frantzius?); Panama (?) (Mf‘Leannan °). 
This well-marked Cotinga represents in Central America the well-known C. cincta of 
Brazil, having the same distribution of colours; but the pectoral band and the flanks, 
as well as the upper surface, are of a much paler shade of blue than in the southern 
bird, and there is some difference in the form of the primaries. 
C. amabilis was first described by Gould from specimens sent him from Guatemala by 
Skinner!. During our visits to Vera Paz we found it not uncommon in the vicinity of 
Coban and in the forest-country lying to the northward. Near Coban the country is 
broken up by a series of isolated hills, on the summits of most of which a patch of forest 
remains, the lower country being occupied by cultivated ground and second-growth woods. 
In these patches of forest C. amabdilis was to be fourid at seasons when certain fruits on 
which they fed were ripe, at other times they frequented the lower forest-country. 
The northern extension of this species reaches Orizaba, where Sallé met with it and 
obtained one female example*. It must, however, be a very rare bird in this district, 
as Sumichrast omits all mention of it in his list of the birds of Vera Cruz, and no 
specimens have reached us from that part of Mexico; but Mr. Richardson has recently 
sent us a skin of a female bird which he shot at Chimalapa, on the eastern side of the 
Cordillera of Tehuantepec, in March 1890. Its southern range extends to Eastern Costa 
Rica, whence we have specimens certainly referable to this bird. Mr. Lawrence includes 
C. amabilis in his list of M‘Leannan’s collections made on the Isthmus of Panama ; 
but this identification requires to be reconsidered, for we believe that M‘Leannan’s 
skins will prove to belong to C. ridgwayi or to be Guatemalan specimens wrongly 
attributed to Panama. 
The peculiar structure of the wing of C. amabilis and its difference in this respect 
from that of C. ridgwayi is described under the genus. 
2. Cotinga ridgwayi. 
Cotinga amabilis, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 473+; Salv. P. Z.S. 1870, p. 200°. 
Cotinga ridgwayt, Zeledon, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 1°; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 384+. 
C. amabili similis sed minor, colore cxruleo pallidiore, ciliis oculorum et frontis lateribus ad basin nigris (nec 
ceruleis), tectricibus caude multo brevioribus et alis diversis facile distinguenda. 
@ supra cervino-punctata, subtus abdomine fusco ; plumis omnibus cervino limbatis. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Pozo Azul (Zeledon?); Panama, Bugaba (Arcé ?). 
An immature bird sent us by Arcé from Chiriqui, and described in 1870 as doubtfully 
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