FAMILY COTINGIDAE 2^9 



Females (10 from Bolivar, eastern Cordoba, and Magdalena), 

 wing 71.^-77. Z (74.5), tail 51.0-54.8 (52.5), culmen from base 

 14.0-15.9 (15.1). tarsus 18.0-19.0 (18.6) mm. 



PACHYRAMPHUS RUFUS (Boddaert) : Cinereous Becard, 

 Picogrueso Cinereo 



Muscicapa rufa Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enl., 1783, p. 27. (Cayenne.) 



Slightly smaller than the Cinnamon Becard ; female differs from 

 that species in plain whitish lores ; male is gray above with black 

 crown. 



Description. — Length 130 to 140 mm. Adult male, crown, post- 

 ocular area and hindneck glossy black ; back, scapulars, rump, and 

 upper tail coverts gray, the back in some very faintly mottled with 

 dusky ; lesser wing coverts black, the outer ones margined with gray ; 

 middle and greater coverts gray, edged with white, with narrow 

 black shaft lines ; primaries dull black, edged narrowly with white ; 

 alula and primary coverts black ; tail gray, shafts black tipped nar- 

 rowly with white ; lores and lateral frontal feathers white ; a small 

 spot adjacent to front of eye black ; upper throat white ; sides of 

 head and neck and of body pale gray ; center of breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail coverts white ; edge of wing, under wing coverts and 

 axillars white, with the outer under coverts spotted lightly with black ; 

 inner margins of primaries white. 



Adult female, upper surface, including wings and tail (except as 

 noted) tawny to rufous-tawny; generally similar to the female of 

 Pachyramphiis c. cinnamomeus , but with loral area entirely white ; the 

 white more extensive across the forehead ; a black line on primaries 

 and secondaries external to the shaft (the feathers edged narrowly ex- 

 ternally with cinnamon-rufous), and with the inner side of the alula 

 and the primary coverts black. 



Juvenile male, crown and hindneck dull brown, mottled slightly 

 with dusky ; a tiny black spot adjacent to the anterior end of the 

 eyelids ; back, scapulars, rump, upper tail coverts, and tail cinnamon- 

 rufous ; under surface white, with a faint band of buff across the 

 breast. 



Juvenile female, crown and hindneck slaty gray, mixed lightly and 

 indistinctly with dull cinnamon, otherwise similar to the juvenile 

 male. 



Stone (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 70, 1918, p. 269) 

 recorded colors in a male taken by Jewel at Gatun, Canal Zone, May 

 26, 1912, as "iris brown, bill blue-gray with black tip, feet light gray." 



