FAMILY COTINGIDAE 29I 



Characters. — Male, slightly grayer, less clearly white ; female, 

 definitely darker, browner on crown, hindneck. and back ; rump and 

 upper tail coverts darker gray. 



In a male collected near Puerto Armuelles, Chiriqui, February 10, 

 1966, the iris was brownish red ; bare skin on side of head deep red ; 

 tip of bill black, rest dull red ; inside of mouth brighter red ; tarsus 

 and toes brownish gray ; claws dusky neutral gray. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Canal Zone, lower Chagres Valley 

 in the eastern Province of Panama, western Province of Panama, 

 Code, Herrera. and Chiriqui), wing 115.2-123.2 (119.5), tail 64.7- 

 73.7 (68.7), culmen from base 23.6-26.8 (25.4), tarsus 24.4-26.6 

 (25.5) mm. 



Females (10 from Canal Zone, western Province of Panama, 

 Code, Herrera, and Chiriqui), wing 111.5-118.0 (114.5), tail 64.6- 

 69.3 (66.6), culmen from base 25.1-27.2 (26.3), tarsus 24.7-26.5 

 (25.4) mm. 



Resident. Locally common wherever there are trees, on the Pacific 

 slope from western Chiriqui (Puerto Armuelles, Sereno) east 

 through Veraguas (Sona, and western side of the Azuero Peninsula), 

 Los Santos (Tonosi) southern Code (El Valle), the Province of 

 Panama (La Campana, Cerro Azul), and the Canal Zone; on the 

 Caribbean side from western Bocas del Toro (Zegla, Almirante), 

 northern Veraguas (Calovevora), northern Code (El Uracillo), 

 Colon (Rio Indio), and the northern Canal Zone; mainly in the 

 Tropical Zone, but to 1850 meters in the lower Subtropical Zone in 

 Chiriqui (Cerro Punta) ; Isla Coiba, Isla Cebaco. 



The most eastern records are a female taken April 23, 1949, at 

 the Quebrada Carriaso on the headwaters of the Rio Pacora in the 

 Cerro Azul, and a male collected February 18, 1961, on the Province 

 of Panama side of the Rio Boqueron, near the Peluca Hydrographic 

 Station, back of Madden Lake. Both specimens in color are clearly 

 of this western race. There are numerous specimens from both the 

 northern and southern slopes in the Canal Zone. Beyond Panama 

 costaricensis ranges through Costa Rica and Nicaragua to south- 

 eastern Honduras. 



The first report of eggs of this race is that of Cherrie (Auk, 

 1892, p. 322) who recorded a nest with one egg at Terraba, Costa 

 Rica, found March 22, 1892. The female, which he collected, had 

 another egg in the oviduct. The ground color in these eggs was 

 "dark pinkish buff . . . almost completely hidden by irregular mark- 

 ings, lines, and blotches, of chestnut brown, these blotches darkest 

 and most abundant about the larger end. The eggs measure 1.16 X 



