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hh. Larger (wing more than 200 mm.); both sexes with whole throat 



and chest scarlet Pyroderus (extralimital) « 



ff. Pileum with an imibrella-shaped crest, and forneck with a pendant 



wattle; color entirely black Cephalopterus (p. 877) 



ee. Pileum, lores, and orbital region naked; color olive-tawny above, the 



wings and tail dusky, tawny below Calvifrons (extralimital) b 



cc. Auricular region and sides of neck naked; plumage of i^ileum, lores, nasal 

 fosstB and chin short, dense, and velvety. (Gymnoderese.) 



Gymnoderus (extralimital) ^ 

 hh. Mouth deeply cleft, the rictus beneath middle of eye; mandible very narrow, 

 arched, with gonys less than half as long as rami; chin (sometimes whole 

 throat) naked; adult males with elongated fleshy appendages on head, and 

 adult females conspicuously streaked with olive and yellow on under parts 

 (the wing more than 130 ram.). {Procniatinse) Procnias (p. 880) 



Genus COTINGA Brisson. 



Cotinga Brisson, Orn., ii, 1790, 339. (Type, Ampelis cotinga Linnaeus.) 

 Hylocosmia Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., 1872, 62. (New name for 



Cotinga Brisson, rejected on ground of purism; "nomen h. 1. datum; vA?/ 



et xoiMoi;, silvse ornamentum.") 



Medium-sized Cotingidse (wing about 100 — 1 25 mm.) , the adult males 

 richly colored with bright blue and purple, the females and immature 

 males dusky grayish brown above, lunulated or squamated with 

 whitish or buffy, paler below, with broader whitish or buffy lunula- 

 tions. 



Bill small, less than half as long as head, broad and depressed 

 basally, its depth at nosirils decidedly less than its width at the same 

 point; culmen distinctly ridged, gently curved from near base, more 

 strongh^ so terminally, the tip of maxilla slightly uncinate; gonys 

 about as long as mandibular rami or slightly shorter, faintly convex; 

 maxillary tomium slightly but distinctly concave, with distinct sub- 

 terminal notch. Nostril wholly exposed, rather large, broadly oval, 

 margined supero-posteriorly by membrane. Rictal bristles moder- 

 ately developed. Wing moderate, Vvitli longest primaries exceeding 



(iCoracina (not of Vieillot, 1816) Temminck, PI. Col., livr. 7, 1823. (Type, Coradas 

 smtata Shsiw .) — Corvina Hahn, Yogel aus Asien, etc., Li(>f. ii, 1822, pi. 4, and text. 

 (Type, Coracina rubricollis YleiWot, =Coracias scutata Shaw.) — Pyroderus Gray, List 

 Gen. Birds, 1840, 38. (Same type). Colombia and Veneziiela to Paraguay; four 

 species. 



b Calvifrons Daudin, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., iii, 1804, 146. (Type, Corvus calvus 

 Linnseus.) — Gyvinocephalus (not of Bloch and Schneider, 1801) Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 

 Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., xiii, 1809, 237. (Same tj-pe)—Perissocephalus Oberholser, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., June 2, 1899, 209 (to replace Gymnocephalus , preoccupied.) 

 Guiana; monotypic. 



cGymnoderm Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat., xiii, 1809, 237. (Type, 

 Graculafcetidal^xrmiens.) — Coracina (not Coracinus Gronovius, 1763) Vieillot, Analyse, 

 1816, 37. (Type, C. gymnodcra \un\\oi, = Grac}da fotida Linnseus.) — Coronis Gloger, 

 Froriep's Notizen, xvi, 1827, 277. (Same type.) Guiana to eastern Ecuador; 

 monotypic. 



