788 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CARPODECTES NITIDUS Salvin. 



SNOWY COTINGA. 



Adult viole. — Pileiiin delicate pale bluish gray (nearly lavender 

 gray), fading on back, scapulars, rump, up])er tail-coverts, tail, pri- 

 maries, primary coverts, and alida into much paler gray (paler than 

 pearl gray); rest of plumage pure white, the wing-coverts and f-ec- 

 ondaries very faintly tinged with pale liluish gray; bill bluish gray 

 (light bluish gray or grayish blue in life), bec<miing black on culmen; 

 iris brown; legs and feet grayish black; length (skins), 192-222 (206); 

 wing, 135-146.5 (140.7); tail, 63.5-71 (66.8); exposed culmen, 17-20 

 (ISA); tarsus, 23-26 (24.7); middle toe, 19-21 (20.2).« 



Adult female. — Above plain deep brownish gray (mouse gray, the 

 pileum more slate-gray or dark ])liimbeous) ; middle wing-coverts 

 with outer webs ])roadly tipped and edged with white or grayish 

 white; greater coverts, alula, primary coverts, and remiges blackish 

 slate, the greater coverts and secondaries broadly and conspicuoush^ 

 edged with white; sides of head paler gray than pileiun, inclosing a 

 distinct orbital ring of wdiite; throat, chest, and sides of breast plain 

 pale gray (about no. 8), fading into white on chin, median portion of 

 breast, a})domen, flanks, and under tail-coverts; axillars and under 

 wing-coverts pure white; inner webs of remiges broadly edged with 

 white; bill, iris, legs, and feet, as in adult male; length (skins), 183-215 

 (198); wing, 122-^34 (130.4); tail, 57-67 (63); exposed culmen, 16.5- 

 18 (17.4); tarsus, 21.5-25 (23.9); middle toe, 18-20.5 (19.3).^ 



Young male. — Similar to the adidt female, but gray of upper parts 

 paler and (except on ])ileum) browner (nearly drab-gray); white edg- 

 ings of wing-coverts and secondaries much broader; sides of head 

 (including lores) and under parts white, the auricular region tinged 

 with brownish gray, the cliest faintly tinged with very pale bluish 

 gray. (Older individuals have more white on ui:>per parts, sometimes 

 resembling adult males, except that the remiges are partially, the 

 primaries sometimes wholly, dusky.) 



Atlantic slope of Costa Rica (Tucurriqui; San Carlos; Pacuare; 

 Carrillo; Bonilla; Guapiles; Guacimo; Rio Frio), Nicaragua (Grey- 

 town; Rio Escondido), and Plonduras (Ceiba). 



Carpodectes nitidus Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864 (pub. Apr. 1, 1865), 

 583, pi. 36 (Tucurriqui, Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman); Ibis, 1872, 



a Fifteen specimens. 

 b Ten specimens. 



