FAMILY COTINGIDAE 



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distal portion black tipped with white ; wing and outer wing coverts 

 black ; chin black ; rest of under surface, side of head, axillars, under 

 wing coverts, and inner webs of wing feathers white. 



Adult female, frontal space, line above eye, and side of head chest- 

 nut ; lores grayish white ; rest of crown black ; hindneck mixed 

 gray or grayish brown, spotted with black ; back, scapulars, inner 

 wing coverts, secondaries, rump, and upper tail coverts, gray or 

 brown ; basal half of tail gray or grayish brown ; distal portion black, 



Figure 26. — Black-crowned becard, bacaco pequeno, Erator inquisitor. 



tipped narrowly with white ; wing and outer wing coverts black, upper 

 foreneck, abdomen, axillars, under wing coverts, and inner margins of 

 wing feathers white ; lower foreneck, breast, and sides pale gray. 



Immature male, forehead white : crown feathers basally white that 

 shows irregularly in the black tips ; side of head light chestnut ; 

 hindneck, back, and secondaries pale brownish gray, edged and 

 spotted indefinitely with white ; under surface white, with the fore- 

 neck and breast mottled faintly with gray. 



Immature female, crown and sides of head light chestnut, becom- 

 ing paler, mixed with white, on hindneck ; posterior half and sides of 

 crown spotted and lined with black ; back, scapulars, and upper tail 

 coverts pale brownish gray ; rump white ; under surface white. 



This becard, superficially a miniature of the Masked Tityra in 

 color and pattern of markings, but more slender in body, is found 



