FAMILY COTINGIDAE 267 



with dull white ; an indistinct narrow line of dull white back of 

 nostrils and on anterior lores ; wings and tail brownish black ; lesser 

 and middle coverts edged with dull white ; greater coverts, secon- 

 daries, and inner primaries bordered with cinnamon-buff to white ; 

 rectrices with inner webs edged with cinnamon-buff ; lores and 

 under surface buff to pale cinnamon-buff, with the feathers centrally 

 dull blackish to grayish black ; under tail coverts cinnamon-buff ; 

 under wing coverts, edge of wing, inner border of primaries and 

 secondaries cinnamon-buff. 



Immature male, like female, with blue feathers appearing irregu- 

 larly over body. 



A male, taken at El Real, Darien, January 8, 1964, had the iris very 

 dark brown ; base of culmen and side of mandible behind nostril pale 

 greenish gray ; rest of maxilla black, of mandible neutral gray, shading 

 to pale greenish gray on base ; tarsus and toes dusky neutral gray ; 

 claws black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Canal Zone, eastern Province of 

 Panama, and Darien), wing 102.5-112.0 (108.8), tail 65.0-70.4 

 (66.6), culmen from base 14.6-17.7 (16.6), tarsus 21.4-22.5 

 (21.8) mm. 



Females (10 from eastern Province of Panama, and northwestern 

 Colombia), wing 106.2-111.1 (108.3), tail 64.5-69.5 (66.7), culmen 

 from base 15.4-17.4 (16.4), tarsus 21.6-23.8 (22.3) mm. 



Resident. Locally fairly common from the Canal Zone east to 

 Colombia on both Pacific and Caribbean slopes. 



A male, collected in 1914 by A. Chaves at Chorrera, western 

 Province of Panama, on the Pacific side a few kilometers west of the 

 Canal Zone boundary, is the most western record. Another comes 

 from near Cocoli, on the Pacific side of the Canal Zone, taken 

 August 3, 1955. The species, found regularly at Barro Colorado 

 Island, was taken by McLeannan a hundred years ago near Lion Hill. 

 Farther east on the Pacific slope I found it at Charco del Toro on the 

 Rio Maje ; on the Rio Tuira at El Real, at the mouth of the Rio Paya, 

 and on the Rio Chucunaque at the mouth of the Tuquesa. Others 

 have been recorded from Tigre on the Rio Cupe, in this valley, and 

 from Garachine on the coast. Wedel collected a series at Perme and 

 Puerto Obaldia in eastern San Bias. 



They live mainly in the leafy screen of the high tree crown, where 

 usually they are hidden from the ground. As they are not active 

 in movement, I have observed them more as they have come to feed 

 in fig and other fruit trees. Once, on February 22, 1959, a female 



