272 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 3 



ings or plantations with tall shade trees adjoining the forest. Here 

 the bird occurs either singly or in small groups of several separated 

 individuals usually in the upper branches of the taller trees." 

 Nothing is known of the nest and eggs. 



CARPODECTES HOPKEI Berlepsch: White Cotinga, Cotinga 



Piquinegro 



Carpodcctcs hopkci Berlepsch, Orn. Monatsber., vol. 5, November 1897, p. 174. 

 (San Jose, Rio Dagua, Valle, Colombia.) 



Medium size (slightly larger than the two related species) ; male 

 whiter above, bill blacker ; primaries with black spots at tip ; female, 

 darker above, bill larger, black. 



Description. — Length, males 235-250 mm., females 220-235 mm. 

 Adult male, white throughout, very faintly duller on crown, back, and 

 tail; five outer primaries with a black spot at tip (some, possibly 

 younger, have black tips on all primaries, and larger spots on the end 

 of the tail ) ; bare narrow edge of eyelids black. 



Adult female, upper surface, brownish black ; wings and tail dull 

 black ; wing coverts, secondaries, and inner primaries edged with 

 white ; a faintly indicated whitish ring around eye ; bare skin of edge 

 of eyelids black ; lores, side of head, and upper throat gray ; foreneck, 

 sides, and upper breast slightly darker gray ; abdomen, flanks, under 

 tail coverts, axillars, under wing coverts, and edging on inner 

 surface of inner primaries white. 



Immature male, similar to adult female, but gray of dorsal surface 

 paler ; white edgings on wings somewhat more extensive. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from western Colombia and Darien), 

 wing 153.1-169.0 (162.1), tail 80.2-94.7 (89.1), culmen from base 

 19.9-23.4 (21.9), tarsus 24.4-25.6 (24.9) mm. 



Females (8 from western Colombia), wing 137.3-149.9 (144.3), 

 tail 74.8-87.5 (80.9), culmen from base 20.2-22.7 (21.1), tarsus 

 23.1-25.5 (24.2) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common from 300 to 600 meters elevation on the 

 Cerro de Nique, Darien. Reported also by sight records from the 

 lower slopes of the Serrania del Sapo near Garachine, and above 

 Bahia Pifias. 



Thomas Barbour and W. S. Brooks in 1922, in their field study of 

 the birds of Darien (Bangs and Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 vol. 65, 1922, pp. 193, 212) were located during April at a camp on 

 Cerro Sapo in rain forest below 450 meters on the headwaters of 

 Rio San Antonio, back of the town of Garachine. Their account re- 



