FAMILY COTINGIDAE 269 



field work in the mountain area of western Chiriqui and came down 

 to the coast, he shot two males in the scrub at Pedregal. These were 

 the only ones seen, and are the only specimens as yet reported for 

 Panama (see Bangs, Proc. New Eng. Zool. Club, vol. 3, 1902, 

 p. 41.) One is in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the other 

 was presented to the U.S. National Museum by Mr. Bangs. 



At the head of the Rio Corotu back of Puerto Armuelles, Chiriqui, 

 in early morning on February 10, 1966, as I climbed the wooded 

 slope toward the boundary with Costa Rica, half way up in heavy 

 forest I saw a male of this species fiy into the top of a tall tree. It 

 moved along through the tree crown before we came near. A female 

 flew past without stopping. 



According to Slud (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 128, 1964, 

 pp. 226-227) this species is fairly common at several coastal localities 

 in southwestern Costa Rica, from the Gulf of Nicoya to Golfo Dulce. 

 He notes that "I saw it usually in groups to the size of small flocks, 

 almost invariably in tall trees and typically in the mangroves and 

 contiguous tall woodland. ... In the mangroves individuals are 

 almost constantly flying about. . . . The bird flies easily and well 

 either in the direct, flowing manner of a pigeon or in long and shallow, 

 tityra-like dips. The note is a dovelike or trogonlike "cah" or "cow," 

 ending in a throaty scrape . . . The birds call seldom." 



The nest and eggs are unknown. 



Search should be made for this species in the mangroves among 

 the islands and swampy shores on the coast of Chiriqui from below 

 Pedregal eastward. 



The type specimen collected in May 1883, presented to the U.S. 

 National Museum by Jose Zeled6n, was taken by his brother Juan. 

 The species was named for their sister, Antonia Zeledon de Araya. 



CARPODECTES NITIDUS Salvin: Snowy Cotinga, Paloma del 



Espiritu Santo 



Figure 23 



Carpodcctcs nitidus Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864 (February 1865), 

 p. 583, pi. 36. (Tucurrique, Costa Rica.) 



Medium size ; male white, with black bill ; female like that of 

 Antonia's Cotinga, but bill black or slate. 



Description. — Length 195-210 mm. Adult male, crown and hind- 

 neck pale bluish gray ; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail coverts, tail, 

 alula, greater wing coverts and primaries very pale gray ; sides of 



