FAMILY COTINGIDAE 



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length of 100 mm or more, soft and flexible, wormlike in form ; entire 

 head, neck, and chest pure white : rest of the plumage, including 

 wings and tail, chestnut-rufous; breast feathers white basally. 



Female, forehead and lores feathered ; upper surface greenish 

 olive, the feathers margined indistinctly with yellowish green ; fore- 



FiGURE 27. — Three-wattled bellbird, calandria. Procnias tricarunciilata, male. 



head, space around eye and sides of head spotted and streaked faintly 

 with dull yellow ; under surface yellow, streaked heavily with olive- 

 green, except the under tail coverts ; throat and under wing coverts 

 with the darker markings restricted or absent ; rarely with one or 

 more chestnut-rufous feathers on the breast. 



Immature male, like the female, but with anterior forehead and 

 loral area mainly bare, and the throat and upper foreneck plain yellow 

 or only faintly streaked. As the bird matures, chestnut-rufous 

 feathers appear scattered over the breast. 



An adult male, taken on Isla Cebaco, Veraguas, January 11, 1965, 

 had the iris dark brown ; bill black, with the posterior two-thirds 

 of the cutting edges (upper and lower) dull neutral gray; bare skin 

 at base of bill and around eye blackish slate ; long pendant wattles 

 dusky neutral gray; inside of mouth, including entire tongue, deep 

 black (this color extending the full length of the gullet to the 



