FAMILY COTINGIDAE 285 



Female, crown and nape chestnut-brown ; forehead, a Hne extend- 

 ing back above eye, and a line on lower eyelid white ; lores black ; a 

 narrow black line bordering brown of crown, becoming broad on side 

 of head and across nape, bordered on posterior margin of nape with a 

 wash of light gray ; back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail coverts 

 grayish olive-green ; tail black, basally becoming grayish brown, the 

 outer rectrix edged and tipped widely with cinnamon-buff, the other 

 tail feathers tipped with the same in decreasing amount; wings 

 black, the lesser coverts edged with brown or olive ; middle and 

 greater coverts, and wing feathers edged and tipped broadly with 

 buff to cinnamon-buff; sides of head, neck, and a narrow line across 

 base of hindneck pale yellowish olive ; under surface, including 

 flanks, pale yellow ; axillars, under wing coverts, and inner border 

 of wing feathers very pale yellow. 



Measurements. — Males (8 from Chiriqui, Veraguas, and Costa 

 Rica), wing 69.7-75.1 (73.1), tail 51.5-55.4 (52.9), culmen from 

 base 14.4-16.8 (15.5, average of 7), tarsus 18.0-19.2 (18.6) mm. 



Females (6 from Chiriqui and Costa Rica), wing 69.4-72.7 (70.1), 

 tail 50.7-58.8 (54.2), culmen from base 14.2-15.6 (14.8), tarsus 

 18.1-19.5 (18.9) mm. 



Resident. This species, rare and little known in Panama, has been 

 found mainly in the mountain areas of Chiriqui, where Arce collected 

 a male at Bugaba. His early records include also two other males 

 marked Calovevora which is on the Caribbean side in northern 

 Veraguas. These, with the one first mentioned, in the British 

 Museum (Natural History), are dated 1868 and 1869. In the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History there is a female labeled Boqueron, 

 August 26. 1901. and a male from Boquete, April 20, 1903. Mrs. 

 Mary E. Davidson secured a female at Horqueta, above Boquete, 

 February 5, 1934 (specimen in the California Academy of Sciences). 

 Two females in the Monniche collection (Field Museum) from the 

 latter area were taken at 1675 meters at Velo May 23 and December 

 12, 1939. Griscom secured male and female on Cerro Flores, eastern 

 Chiriqui. March 9 and 13, 1924. On the Pacific side of Veraguas, 

 Benson collected a male at Chitra, January 13, 1926. These are the 

 definite records to date, all from western Panama. 



A report of this species by Griscom (Auk, 1933, p. 304, cited also 

 in Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.. vol. 78, 1935, p. 346) of a male in the 

 Peabody Museum at Yale, taken by Austin Smith at Puerto Antonio 

 on the Rio Bayano, near Chepo. is based on a male Pachyramphus 

 rufus that was wrongly identified. Another early record by Salvadori 



