FAMILY COTINGIDAE 281 



PACHYRAMPHUS POLYCHOPTERUS SIMILIS Cherrie: 

 White-winged Becard, Picogrueso Aliblanco 



Figure 24 



Pachyrhaiiiphns similis Cherrie, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, September 4, 

 1891, p. 343. (Greytown, Nicaragua.) 



Small. Male, black above, with prominent white markings on 

 wings ; gray underneath. Female, greenish olive above, yellow under- 

 neath, cinnamon-buff on wings. 



Description. — Length 130-145 mm. Adult male, crown and hind- 

 neck with the individual feathers lined centrally with dark steel blue ; 



Figure 24. — White-winged becard, picogrueso aliblanco, Pachyramphus 

 polychopterus similis, male. 



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

 outer rectrix edged distally and tipped with white, the others tipped 

 in diminishing amount with white, until this is nearly or wholly ab- 

 sent on the central pair ; scapulars externally white, forming a 

 prominent stripe ; middle and greater coverts tipped and edged broadly 

 with white ; secondaries and inner primaries edged narrowly with 

 white ; under surface slate-gray, mottled very faintly with tiny spots 

 of white ; under wing coverts and axillars gray or mixed pale gray 

 and white ; inner margins of wings edged with white. 



Adult female, crown and hindneck olive to grayish olive ; back, 

 rump, and upper tail coverts greenish olive ; wings edged with 



