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$■ supra fusca, plumis omnibus albido tenninatis : subtus albida, plumis pectoris et hypochondriorum fusds, 

 albido limbatis ; alis et oauda nigricantibus ; secundariis et tectricibus albido limbatis. (Descr. feminae ex 

 Coban, Gruatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



cJ juv. femiaee similis, plumis maris cseruleis et purpureis hue illuc apparentibus. 



Hab. Mexico, Orizaba {Salle % Chimalapa, Tehuantepec ( W. JB. Bichardson) ; Guate- 

 mala, Choctum, Coban {F.B. G. & O.S.), Vera Paz {Skinner^); Costa Eica {Van 

 Patten), San Jose {v. Frantzius '') ; Panama {V) {M'Leannnn ^). 



This well-marked Cotinga represents in Central America the well-known C. cincta of 

 Brazil, having the same distribution of colours ; but the pectoral band and the flanks, 

 as well as the upper surface, are of a much paler shade of blue than in the southern 

 bird, and there is some difference in the form of the primaries. 



C. amabilis was first described by Gould from specimens sent him from Guatemala by 

 Skinner^. During our visits to Vera Paz we found it not uncommon in the vicinity of 

 Coban and in the forest-country lying to the northward. Near Coban the country is 

 broken up by a series of isolated hills, on the suTJimits of most of which a patch of forest 

 remains, the lower country being occupied by cultivated ground and second-growth woods. 

 In these patches of forest C. amabilis was to be found at seasons when certain fruits on 

 which they fed were ripe, at other times they frequented the lower forest-country. 



The northern extension of this species reaches Orizaba, where Salle met with it and 

 obtained one female example *. It must, however, be a very rare bird in this district, 

 as Sumichrast omits all mention of it in his list of the birds of Vera Cruz, and no 

 specimens have reached us from that part of Mexico ; but Mr. Richardson has'recently 

 sent us a skin of a female bird which he shot at Chimalapa, on the eastern side of the 

 Cordillera of Tehuantepec, in March 1890. Its southern range extends to Eastern Costa 

 Rica, whence we have specimens certainly referable to this bird. Mr. Lawrence includes 

 C. amabilis in his list of M'Leannan's collections made on the Isthmus of Panama ; 

 but this identification requires to be reconsidered, for we believe that M'Leannan's 

 skins will prove to belong to C. ridgwayi or to be Guatemalan specimens wrongly 

 attributed to Panama. 



The peculiar structure of the wing of C. amabilis and its differeace in this respect 

 from that of C. ridgwayi is described under the genus. 



2. Cotinga ridgwayi. 



Cotinga amabilis, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 473 ' ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 200'. 



Cotinga ridgwayi, Zeledon, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 1 " ; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 384 \ 



C. amabili similis sed miaor, colore caeruleo paUidiore, cUiis oculorum et firontis lateribus ad basin nigris (nee 



cseruleis), tectricibus caudae multo brevioribus et alis diversis facile distinguenda. 

 § supra cervino-punotata, subtus abdomine fusco ; plumis omnibus cervino limbatis. 



Rab. Costa Rica, Pozo Azul {Zeledon ^) ; Panama, Bugaba {Arce ^). 



An immature bird sent us by Arce from Chiriqui, and described in 1870 as doubtfully 



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