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c. Under parts deep browni.'-li gray, the feathers narrowly margined with paler. 



Cotinga cayana, adult female and young < extralimital). 

 -r. I'nder parts huffy, spotted with dusky (the spots larger on breOvSt). 

 d. Buffy whitish tips to feathers of pileum and hindneck narrower. 

 e. Larger (wing 118-121 mm. ) 



Cotinga cincta, atlult female and young (extraliraital). 

 ce. Smaller (wing 100 mm. i 



Cotinga cotinga. adult female and young (extralimital i. 

 (Id. Huffy whitish tips to feathers of pileum and hindneck broader. 



Cotinga ridgwayi. adult female and young (p. 784) 



bb. Axillars, under wing-coverts, and edge.* of inner webs of remiges white or grayish 



white (the first two sometime- marked with grayi-sh): paler portions of under 



parts white Cotinga amabilis. adult female and young i pp. 781-783 1 



COTINGA AMABftIS Gould. 

 LOVELY COTINGA. 



Adult male. — Above, including lesser and middle wing-coverts, 

 ven' rich, bright blue (nearest to sevres or cerulean blue),'^ changing 

 to bright light yellowi.sh green when viewed from the light, and to 

 ultramarine or cobalt blue when viewed toward the light; the color 

 slightly but distinctly deeper on the pileum, the blue feathers everv'- 

 where with a black siibterminal space and basal pointed space of 

 gray, but entirely concealed except when feathers are disarranged; 

 malar region and lower half (or more) of auricular region glossy pur- 

 plish black or blackish purple, the chin, throat, and upper chest rich, 

 dark auricula purple; a large, somewhat shield-shaped or obovate 

 patch of rich auricula purple covering breast and median portion of 

 abdouien; rest of under parts, including a broad and sharply defined 

 band between the purple gular and pectoral areas, rich, bright blue, 

 like upper parts; wings (except lesser and middle coverts), black, 

 the greater and primary' coverts and secondaries edged with blue or 

 greenish blue, or bluish green, more broadly on tertials and terminal 

 portion of greater coverts ; tail black, the rectrices edged with greenish 

 blue or bluish green ; axillars and under wing-coverts black, margined 

 with greenish blue or bluish green; inner webs of remiges blackish 

 slate, becoming paler slate or slate-grayish on edges; maxilla grayish 

 black, becoming more grayish basally : mandible dusky grayish (bluish 

 gray in lifeO, darker terminally; legs and feet black: length (skins), 

 175-196 (186); wing, 113.5-120.5 (118.3); tail, 60.5-67.5 (65.2); 

 exposed culmen, 12.5-15 (13.8); tarsus, 20-22.5 (21.1); middle toe. 

 16-18 (17.5).'' 



Adult female. — General color of upper parts dark gra^'ish brown 

 or sooty (sometimes tinged with greenish, especially on scapulars), 



o There is not, however, any blue represented on the writer's " ' Xomenclatiu-e of 

 Colors" that is sufficiently pure or bright. 

 b Fourteen specimens. 



