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BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



head, including lores, and entire under surface, including the under 

 wing coverts, pure white ; narrow bare margin of eyelids black. 



Adult female, upper surface brownish gray, pileum somewhat 

 blacker ; primaries and primary coverts black ; secondaries, middle 

 and greater coverts blackish slate, edged with white and grayish 

 white ; narrow bare edge of eyelids black ; a narrow ring around eye 

 white ; rest of side of head brownish gray ; chin narrowly white ; 



Figure 23. — Snowy cotinga, paloma del espiritu santo, Carpodectcs nitidus, 

 male above, female below. 



foreneck, upper breast, and sides pale gray ; lower breast, abdomen, 

 fianks, and under tail coverts white ; outer under wing coverts 

 blackish gray ; axillars, rest of under wing coverts, and edging of 

 inner side of primaries white. 



Nestling (Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. no. 494659, San Carlos, Costa 

 Rica, March 23, 1891 ), wings and tail about one-third grown; cov- 

 ered closely with soft white down feathers, those on upper surface 

 tipped narrowly with dull grayish brown, most heavily on back of 

 head. 



