FAMILY COTINGIDAE 261 



with black; wings and tail brownish black; side of head, foreneck, 

 and upper breast dark gray, with slight indication of partly hidden, 

 paler gray bases, producing a faintly mottled appearance ; flanks, 

 abdomen, and under tail coverts rather dark cinnamon-brown, barred 

 with black ; axillars dull cinnamon-brown ; under wing coverts dark 

 gray. 



Adult female, crown and hindneck dark brownish gray ; rest of 

 dorsal surface, including wings and tail, distinctly brighter brown ; 

 foreneck and breast lighter gray ; otherwise like adult male. 



Measurements. — Male (one specimen), wing 53.8, tail 38.5, culmen 

 from base 14.4, tarsus 21.1 mm. 



Female (one specimen), wing 53.1, tail 38.3, culmen from base 

 13.5, tarsus 21.8 mm. 



Resident. Recorded from the head of Rio Limon, Cerro Pirre, 

 Darien. 



This form is known in Panama from two specimens taken by 

 Oliver P. Pearson at 1525 and 1410 meters, on Cerro Pirre, May 11, 

 1938. Pearson informs me that in company with Ratibor Hartmann 

 he found them near the old camp site occupied by E. A. Goldman in 

 1912. The specimens, now in the collection of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences in Philadelphia have been on loan to me for study, 

 through the courtesy of R. M. de Schauensee. 



Scytalopus vicinior was described by Zimmer for a population 

 ranging along the western Andes of Colombia south to western 

 Narino, and the continuation of this mountain range in northwestern 

 Ecuador. With the Colombian specimens he included also the two 

 listed above from Cerro Pirre. 



His allocation of vicinior as a race Scytalopus panamensis is not 

 accepted, as panamensis differs in its strongly marked pale grayish 

 white superciliary. It should be noted also that Cerro Pirre is an 

 isolated mountain, separated geographically from the Western Andes 

 of Colombia by the lowlands of the Rio San Juan and the lower 

 Atrato. The two specimens appear allied to vicinior in lack of the 

 light superciliary, but differ in the definitely heavier basal half of the 

 bill. They also are somewhat darker on the upper surface. It seems 

 probable that with more material those of Pirre may be found to 

 represent a distinct subspecies. 



Family COTINGIDAE : Cotingas, Cotingas 



This interesting group of the American tropics is another of 

 those considered to be South American in origin, and to have spread 



