OEIAP. XVIII.] 



BIRDS. 



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FAMILY 41 . COTINGHLE. (28 Genera, 93 Species.) 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 



The Cotingidae, or Chatterers, comprise some of the most 

 beautiful and some of the most remarkable of American birds, 

 for such we must consider the azure and purple Cotingas, the 

 wine-coloured white-winged Pompadour, the snowy carunculated 

 Bell-birds, the orange-coloured Cocks-of-the-Eock, and the mar- 

 vellously-plumed Umbrella-birds, (Plate XV. Vol. II. p. 28). The 

 Cotingidse are also one of the most pre-eminently Neotropical 

 of all the Neotropical families, the great mass of the genera 

 and species being concentrated in and around the vast equatorial 

 forest region of the Amazon. Only 13 species extend north of 

 Panama, one to the Antilles, and not more than 20 are found to 

 the south of the Amazon Valley. Messrs. Sclater and Salvin 

 divide the family into six sub-families, the distribution of which 

 will be briefly indicated. 



Sub-family I. TITYRIISLE (3 genera, 22 species). Eanges from 

 Brazil to Mexico, one species of Hadrostomus inhabiting Jamaica. 



Sub-family II. LIPAUGIX^E (4 genera, 14 species) also ranges 

 from Brazil to Mexico ; one genus (Ptilochloris) is confined to 

 Brazil 



Sub-family III. ATTALIN^E (2 genera, 10 species). Eanges from 

 Paraguay to Costa Eica ; one genus (Casiornis) is confined to 

 South Brazil and Paraguay. 



Sub-family IV. EUPICOLIN^E (2 genera, 5 species). This sub- 

 family is restricted to the Amazonian region and Guiana, with 

 one species extending along the Andean valleys to Bolivia. The 

 genera are Rupicola (3 species) and Ph^nicocercus (2 species). 



Sub-family V. COTINGIN^E (10 genera, 28 species). Eanges 

 from Southern Brazil and Bolivia to Nicaragua ; only two species 



