BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 783 



Immature male and female. — Similar to the adult female, but sec- 

 ondaries and ijreater wino;-coverts tipped and edged with cinnamon- 

 bulT, antl feathers of pileum (at least in immature female) tipped 

 with pale brown instead of whitish. 



Southeastern Mexico, in ^States of Vera Cruz (Orizaba; Mirador; 

 Pasa Nueva) and Oaxaca (Chimalapa) and southward through 

 Atlantic slope, of Guatemala (Choctum; Coban to Chisec) and Hon- 

 duras (Ceiba; Chasniguas; Los Caminos) to Costa Rica (''San Jose;" 

 Naranjo deCartago; Carrillo; Talamanca). 



Cotinga amabilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.. xxv, 1857, 64, pi. 123 (Guatemala; 

 coll. J. Gould); Ann. and Mag. N. H., xx, 1857, 380.— Sclater and Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1859, 4, 5, 125 (Vera Paz, Guatemala).— Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 100 (high- 

 lands of Guatemala), 193 (Coban, Guatemala). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1860, 252 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 256 (Choctum, 

 Guatemala); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 384 (Choctum and Coban, Gua- 

 temala; Costa Rica). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 117 (San Jose, 

 Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 310 (Costa Rica). — Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 138, part (Chimalapa, Orizaba, 

 etc., not "Panama- (?)"= C. nattereri). — Bangs, Bull. Mvis. Comp. Zool., 

 xxxix, 1903, 149 (Ceiba, Honduras). 



[Cotinga] amabilis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869. 370. no. 5618. — Sharpe, Hand-lisf, iii, 

 1901, 174. 



Avipelis amabilis Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., lS(il, 253 (Costa Rica). 



COTINGA RIDGWAYI Zeledon. 

 RIDGWAYS COTINGA. 



Similar to O. amahUis, l^ut smaller (except bill) ; atlult male with 

 wing-formula very dilTerent, the tenth and ninth primaries abruptly 

 much shorter than eighth and (especially the ninth) much reduced in 

 width; tail-coverts much shorter, not covering more than two-thirds 

 of the tail (instead of extending to or even beyond tip) ; forehead mar- 

 gined anteriorly and below by a black line (wanting in C. aniahilis) ; 

 concealed black spots on upper parts larger, more or less exposed on 

 ])ack and scapulars; adult female with ground color of under parts 

 butT (cinnamon-buff on axillars and under wing-coverts), instead of 

 dull white, and general color of upper parts much darker. 



Adult male. — Upper parts very rich l)right blue (nearest cerulean 

 or Sevres), changing to bright yellowish green (except on head and 

 neck) when viewed from the light, and to more piu'plish (cobalt or 

 idtramarine) blue when viewed toward the light, the feathers black 

 or greenish l)lack immediately beneath the surface (exposed, more or 

 less, as black spotting on scapulars and back), this black inclosing a 

 basal pointed area of gray; tail black, the rectrices (except outer- 

 most) narrowly edged with blue; lesser and middle wing-coverts 

 black centrally, broadly margined with bright blue; rest of wings 



