268 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



at our camp on the Rio Paya came to a low perch to peer at the 

 ground, apparently in search of nesting material. 



On Barro Colorado Island, Dr. Chapman recorded nests in Febru- 

 ary and March, the site being nearly 30 meters above the ground 

 with the nest placed at the base of epiphytes growing on a horizontal 

 limb. Nest-building and the care of the young were the task of the 

 female, with no male in attendance. It was noted that the young were 

 covered with white down, and that they were fed on berries. 



The species continues in the tropical forests of western Colombia, 

 east through the lower Sinu and Cauca valleys to the middle Rio 

 Magdalena, and south along the Pacific Coast to northwestern 

 Ecuador. 



CARPODECTES ANTONIAE Ridgway: Antonia's Cotinga, 

 Cotinga de Antonia 



Carpodectcs antoniae "Zeledon, Mss.," Ridgway, Ibis, ser. 5, vol. 2, January 1884, 

 p. 27, pi. 2. (Pozo Azul de Pirris, Costa Rica.) 



Medium size ; male white ; bill yellow, with a black line on the 

 culmen. Female dark gray, with white abdomen ; bill dark. 



Description. — Length 195-210 mm. Adult male, crown very light 

 gray ; wings pure white ; upper surface, from hindneck to tail, with a 

 faint grayish wash ; under surface, including wing coverts and under 

 side of wings, pure white. 



Adult female, upper surface brownish gray, darker on the crown ; 

 primaries, secondaries, middle and greater coverts and alula, blackish 

 slate ; coverts and secondaries edged with white ; tail brownish slate ; 

 side of head and lores pale gray ; a narrow white eye-ring ; chin white ; 

 foreneck, upper breast and sides pale gray ; abdomen, flanks, under 

 tail coverts, axillars, under wing coverts, and inner margin of pri- 

 maries white. 



Bill in the adult male yellow, with the culmen black; in female, 

 culmen blackish brown, rest of bill yellowish to brownish yellow. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Chiriqui and Costa Rica), wing 

 133.1-144.4 (139.2), tail 60.0-68.3 (64.1), culmen from base 17.5- 

 22.2 (19.7), tarsus 24.1-25.9 (25.0) mm. 



Females (5 from Costa Rica), wing 122.9-131.1 (127.1), tail 

 56.4-63.8 (59.5), culmen from base 17.6-20.3 (19.0), tarsus 23.1- 

 24.1 (23.5) mm. 



Status not certain. One record for Pedregal, the port of David, 

 Chiriqui ; and a sight record near Puerto Armuelles, Chiriqui. 



On August 10, 1901, as W. W. Brown, Jr., completed a season's 



