FAMILY COTINGIDAE 307 



dark grayish under wing coverts and under surface of the wings. 



Aduh female, crest reduced, short and bushy ; bare area of foreneck 

 and upper breast less in extent, with a smaller central wattle, and 

 heavier central feathering ; black above, dull slaty black below ; wings 

 as in male. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Chiriqui, Veraguas, Bocas del 

 Toro, and Costa Rica), wing 244.0-256.0 (247.1), tail 109.0-127.3 

 (116.4), culmen from base 27.0-34.3 (30.8), tarsus 43.0-47.2 

 (44.7) mm. 



Females (8 from Chiriqui, Bocas del Toro, and Costa Rica), 

 wing 213.0-240.0 (221.0), tail 100.0-121.0 (108.8), culmen from 

 base 28.5-34.9 (31.3). tarsus 38.5-^5.9 (40.8) mm. 



Resident. Rare; found locally in high, humid forests of Chiriqui, 

 adjacent Bocas del Toro. and Veraguas. 



This species was first brought to attention by Gould at a meeting 

 of the Zoological Society of London on May 14, 1850. when he dis- 

 played the type specimen with the statement that it came from the 

 "high Cordillera of Chiriqui in Veragua. at an elevation of 8000 feet." 

 The bird was collected by Warszewicz in 1849 in crossing the Isthmus 

 on the old trail from Laguna de Chiriqui to David, through the 

 mountains above Boquete. While the type locality is listed as in 

 Chiriqui, it is probable that the bird was obtained on the northern 

 slope in what is now Bocas del Toro at an elevation of 1600 meters or 

 less. The species is known in Panama from relatively few specimens 

 as it seems never to have been common. Arce in 1866 took two males 

 in the Cordillera de Tole, one of them now in the British Museum, 

 and the other in the U.S. National Museum, obtained in an exchange 

 with Salvin. Arce also collected a male at Calovevora (Veraguas) 

 in 1868. The mention by Salvin (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 

 p. 201) of one from Calobre may have been in error for Calovevora, 

 as this locality is not included in any later account. W. W. Brown, 

 Jr.. collected a male and two females above Boquete in March and 

 April 1901. Blake (Fieldiana: Zool., vol. 36, 1958, pp. 534-535) 

 lists two. male and female, in the Monniche collection, taken July 14, 

 1933, from 1460 meters at Cedral, Bocas del Toro, on the trail to 

 the north coast. The only recent specimens are a female, given to me 

 by Ratibor Hartmann, that he shot and prepared at the headwaters of 

 the Rio Changuena, between Cerro Fabrega and Cerro Robalo, in 

 Bocas del Toro, July 9, 1960, and one in the Gorgas Laboratory 

 collection taken at Boca del Drago on the coast of Bocas del Toro, 

 August 25, 1960. On July 17, 1964, N. G. Smith saw two on the 



