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f. No blue baud across chest; blue of upper parts, flanks, etc., more purplish. 

 (Cayenne and Guiana to lower Amazon and Rio Negre.) 



Cotinga cotinga, adult male (extralimital)« 

 ee. A blue ]:)and across chest. (Southeastern Brazil.) 



Cotinga cincta. adult male (extralimital)?> 

 dd. Sides of breast blue, like flanks, etc. 



e. Tail-coverts reaching to tip of tail; outermost (tenth) primary much longer 

 than seventh (nearly equal to eighth); pui'ple pectoral area larger; no 

 black line along anterior and lower margin of forehead; no lilack orbital 

 ring. (Eastern Costa Rica to eastern Mexico.) 



Cotinga amabilis, adult male (p. 781) 

 ee. Tail-coverts falling far short of tip of tail; outermost (tenth) primary much 

 shorter than sixth; a black line along anterior and lower margin of fore- 

 ♦ head and a narrow black orbital ring. 



/. Throat brighter purple, without blackish bai"s; pectoral area lighter and 

 clearer purple, without dusky bars; blue band across upper breast 

 narrower; ninth (next to outermost) primary much shorter than eighth, 

 conspicuously narrowed. (Western Costa Rica and western Panama.) 



Cotinga ridgwayi, adult male (p. 783) 

 ff. Throat darker purple, with narrow bars of black and gray; pectoral 

 area darker purple, barred (mostly beneath surface) with black or 

 dark green and gray; blue band across upper breast broader; ninth 

 (next to outermost) primary nearly as long as eighth, not conspicu- 

 ously narrowed (though contracted in middle portion). (Eastern 

 Panama to central Colombia.) 



Cotinga nattereri, adult male (p. 785) 

 cc. Inner webs of remiges mostly white (except terminally); breast wholly blue 

 (except beneath surface); blue feathere of upper and under parts with a 

 concealed band of purple, those of upper parts pure white basally. (East- 

 ern Ecuador and eastern Peru.") 



Cotinga maynana, adult male (extralimital)c 

 aa. General color dusky grayish brown above, more or less distinctly squamated with 

 whitish, below grayish, squamated with paler, or buffy or whitish spotted with 

 dusky grayish brown. (Adult females and young, j 

 h. Axillars, under wing-coverts, and edges of inner webs of remiges. buff or cinna- 

 mon-buff.; paler portions of under parts buffy. 



« {Amfclisl cotinga Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 298 (Brazil; based on Cotinga 

 Brisson, Orn., ii, 340, pi. 34, fig. 1). — Cotinga cotinga Hartert, Kat. Vogelsaml. Sekenb., 

 1891, 106 (Cayenne).— yl[mpeZts] c^ruZm Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. Meth., 1822, 760 (based on 

 Cotinga Brisson). — Cotinga cxrulea Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 256; Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xiv, 1888, 382. — C[otinga} ccelestis Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 46. — Cotinga 

 caelestis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 175. 



b Ampelis cincta Kuhl, Buff, et Daub. Fig. Av. Col. Nom. Syst., 1820, 4 (based on 

 Cotinga du Bresil Daubenton, PI. Col., pi. 188). — C[otingd\ cincta Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 

 1846, 279; Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, S83.— Ampelis superba Shaw, Nat. 

 Misc., xix, no. 11, July, 1808, pi. 821. — Ampelis cotinga (not of Linnseus) Vieillot, Enc. 

 Meth., ii, 1823, 761. — [Cotinga] cxrulea (not Ampelis cxrulea Vieillot) Bonaparte, 

 Consp. Av., i, 1850, 175. 



c [Ampelis] maynana Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 298 ("Mayanensi regione;" 

 based on Cotinga mayanensis Brisson, Orn., ii, 341, pi. 34, fig. 2). — [Cotinga] maynana 

 Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 176. — Cotinga maynana Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1857, 265; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 386.— Cotinga mayana Allen, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 74 (Rio Napo, e. Ecuador). 



