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green or greenish blue; inner webs of remiges l)lackish slate passing 

 into paler slate on edges; maxilla grayish (bluish gray in life) basally, 

 black terminally; mandible grayish (bluish gray or grayish blue in 

 Hfe?), darker at tip; legs and feet grayish black (lead-colored or bluish 

 gray in life?); length (skins), 189; wing, 110; tail, 68.5-69 (68.7); 

 exposed culinen, 15; tarsus, 20.5; middle toe, 17-18 (17.5)." 



Adult female and young male. — According to Doctor wSclater these 

 are not distinguishable from those of C. cayana (see p. 781). 



Eastern Panama (line of Panama Railway) to central Colombia 



(Bogota). 



Ampelis nattererii Boissonneau, Rev. Zool., iir, Jan., 1840, 2 (Bogota, Colombia). 



[Cotinga] nnttercri Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 175. 



Cotinga nattereri Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 152 (Bogota); Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 385. 

 C[oimga] nattereri Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1890, 140, 



footnote (crit.). 

 Cotinga amabilis (not of Gould) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 473 



(line of Panama Railway). 

 Cotinga ridgwayi (not of Zeledon) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 384, 



part (spec. c. from "probably Panama," according to Salvin and Godman). 



Genus CARPODECTES Salvin. 



Carpodectes Salvin. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.. 1864 (pulx Apr. 1, 1865), 583. (Type, 

 C. nitidus Salvin.) 



Medium-sized Cotingid* (wing about 120-145 mm.) with rictal 

 bristles obsolete, the adult males white, faintly shaded with bluisii 

 gray on upper parts (one species with black at tip of primaries and 

 middle rec trices), females and young males plain brownish gray 

 above, the wings blackish with broad white edgings. 



Bill about half as long as head, rather compressed, its depth at 

 nostrils equal to its width at same point ; culmen distinctly but rather 

 broadly ridged, strongly and regularly curved from base, the tip of 

 maxilla moderately uncinate; gonys longer than mandibular rami, 

 faintly convex; maxillary tomium rather strongly concave, distinctly 

 notched subterminally. Nostril rather large, broadly oval, its pos- 

 terior edge covered by the short but dense feathering of latero- 

 frontal antise. Rictal bristles obsolete. Wing rather long, with 

 longest primaries exceeding secondaries by length of tarsus, or more; 

 sixth to ninth primaries longest and nearly equal, the tenth equal to 

 fourth or a little shorter, none of them narrowed or attenuated termi- 

 nally. Tail less than half as long as wing, even, the rectrices broad, 



« Two specimens — one from Bogota, Colombia, the other from line of the Panama 

 Railway. 



There are certain differences of coloration between these two specimens which may, 

 possibly, indicate that they represent two forms; but the one from Bogota is in par- 

 tially immature plumage, and besides a considerable greater number of specimens 

 would be necessary to decide the point. 



