FAMILY COTINGIDAE 299 



cutting edge, neutral gray ; rest of maxilla and of mandible dull 

 black ; tarsus and toes dark neutral gray ; claws fuscous-black. 



Measurements. — Males (12 from eastern Province of Panama, 

 Darien, and northwestern Colombia), wing 101.3-108.2 (105.0), 

 tail 60.2-66.0 (61.9), culmen from base 23.6-26.6 (24.8), tarsus 

 21.1-21.7 (21.4) mm. 



Females (10 from eastern Province of Panama, Darien, and north- 

 ern Colombia), wing 97.5-103.7 (100.2). tail 55.9-61.6 (59.0), 

 culmen from base 22.7-24.9 (23.8), tarsus 20.4-21.7 (21.1) mm. 



Resident. Fairly common on the Pacific slope in eastern Province 

 of Panama from near Chepo eastward through Darien to the Co- 

 lombian boundary ; to 575-600 meters on Cerro Tacarcuna and Cerro 

 Pirre ; on the Caribbean side at Puerto Obaldia, San Bias. 



The only record to date for the Comarca de San Bias is a male 

 in the Field Museum of Natural History, taken May 15, 1931, by 

 Wedel at Puerto Obaldia. 



In March and April I saw these birds in pairs, often at holes in 

 dead trees at the border of clearings or pastures. Both male and female 

 examined these cavities, and occasionally both carried nesting material 

 to them. Other than this the birds were noted in the forest, at times 

 high in the tree crown, but also in forest edge in the top of the under- 

 growth. Once, at Jaque. one male uttered the usual low calls in a 

 wheezy series that formed a song. 



This subspecies ranges through northern Colombia to the Santa 

 Marta region and the Magdalena Valley. 



QUERULA PURPURATA (P. L. S. Miiller) : Purple-throated 

 Fruit-crow, Pajaro Toro 



Mjiscicapa pwpurata P. L S. Miiller, Natursyst. Suppl., 1776, p. 169. (Cayenne.) 



Large, black ; adult male with iridescent purple-red throat. 



Description. — Bill broad, depressed ; head fully feathered. Length 

 255-275 mm. Male, glossy black above ; somewhat duller on under 

 surface ; chin black ; foreneck with elongate, narrow, stififened, square- 

 ended feathers, dark reddish purple in color (with the hidden bases, 

 including this part of the feather shafts, white), expanded shieldlike 

 at sides and on the lower end. 



Female, dull black throughout (without the throat shield). 



Juvenile, crown, developing wings and tail dull black ; rest of body 

 and the wing coverts brownish black, barred faintly and indistinctly 

 with black. 



