PROCEEDINGS 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



1887. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF COTINGA FROM THE 

 PACIFIC COAST OF COSTA RICA. 



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Cotlnga ridgwayi Zeledon MS. 



Sp. Char. — Similar in color to C. amabUis, but scapulars and inter- 

 scapulars more extensively black centrally (producing a distinctly 

 spotted appearance), a black line bordering- the base of the upper 

 mandible, from forehead to rictus, and a black space immediately in 

 front of the eye 5 purple patch on breast smaller. In certain points of 

 structure very different, the tail-coverts falling far short of the tip of 

 the tail (the upper coverts by .80, the lower by .55, of an inch), instead 

 of reaching quite to or even beyond the tip: fifth instead of second 

 quill longest, the first two abruptly smaller and shorter than the rest 

 (second about equal to sixth). Female and younr/ unknown. 



jgV(&. — Western Costa Eica (Pozo Azul) and south to Colombia 

 ("Bogota"). 



Adult male (type. No. 109813, U. S. Nat. Mus., Pozo Azul, Costa Eica, 

 September 8, 18SG; Jose C. Zeledon): General color rich cerulean-blue, 

 purest on head, elsewhere changing to bright yellowish emerald-green 

 in certain lights; lesser and middle wing-coverts, scapulars, and inter- 

 scapulars largely black centrally, producing a distinctly spotted ap- 

 pearance; wings (except lesser and middle coverts) and tail deep black, 

 the greater coverts, secondaries, and rectrices edged narrowly with 

 greenish blue; whole chin, throat, chest, and malar region rich pansy- 

 l^urple, very abruptly defined, all round; a patch of ligliter purple 

 ("aster-x)urple " anteriorly, fading into pale mauve or violet posteriorly) 

 occupying the middle of the breast and belly; a narrow line of black 

 along lower edge of lores, from rictus to forehead, and a small space 



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