FAMILY COTINGIDAE 273 



lates that "after this camp was located two long trails were cut leading 

 up two high hogback spurs of the main range. One of these led to the 

 ridge called La Jarcia where trees were cut down until a fine look-out 

 was cleared. . . . We were always looking for white Cotingas and 

 several were seen from our clearing evidently visiting a feeding tree 

 but it stood in an absolutely inaccessible spot." 



Recently Dr. Edwin Tyson reported that he and Robert S. Ridgely 

 saw three white cotingas June 21, 1969, in the hills near the mouth 

 of Bahia Pifias, on the coast of Darien, north of Jaque. The first 

 specimen for Panama, an adult male, came from Dr. Pedro Galindo, 

 taken March 25, 1972. The species was seen regularly in March and 

 April on the slopes of Nique. but not in the cloud forest of the sum- 

 mit. The birds were wary, but Rudolfo Hinds finally secured one at 

 600 meters, shot on the wing. The species was named for Gustav 

 Hopke who collected the series from which it was described in 

 November and December 1896. 



PACHYRAMPHUS VERSICOLOR COSTARICENSIS Bangs: 

 Barred Becard, Picogrueso Veteado 



PachyrhampJnis versicolor costaricensis Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 

 vol. 4, March 19, 1908, p. 26. (Irazu, Costa Rica.) 



Small ; breast and sides barred narrowly with slate ; male with 

 side of head olive-yellow ; female, breast and f oreneck olive-yellow. 



Description. — Length 125-130 mm. Male, crown, hindneck, and 

 back black ; rump and upper tail coverts slate-gray, spotted in- 

 distinctly with black ; scapulars white, barred anteriorly with black, 

 posteriorly with slate ; wings black ; middle coverts tipped with white ; 

 secondaries edged broadly, primaries narrowly with white ; tail gray, 

 with narrow tips of white, and black shafts ; bare edge of eyelids 

 black, forming a distinct ring ; lores white, with a few small feathers 

 in front of eye and the abundant rictal bristles, black ; a narrow white 

 line above eye ; chin white ; side of head and neck pale olive-yellow, 

 barred narrowly with slate-gray ; rest of under surface white, barred 

 narrowly on foreneck, breast, sides, and under tail coverts with slate- 

 gray ; axillars and under wing coverts white, with indistinct mottling 

 of gray ; carpal edge black spotted with white ; inner webs of pri- 

 maries and secondaries white. 



Female, crown and hindneck slate-gray, darkening laterally to a 

 line of blackish slate on either side ; back, scapulars, rump, and 

 upper tail coverts olive-green ; outer wing coverts and outer webs 

 of primaries rufous to cinnamon-rufous, side of head and neck olive- 



