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Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 310 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 

 1878, 65 (San Carlos; descr. of female). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 I, 1878, 255 (Pacuare; descr. of immature male); XI, 1888, 544 (Pacuare 

 [Carlos Cervantes], 1876); Condor, VII, 1905, 156, in text (Bonilla). — Zel- 

 edon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 118 (Carrillo and Pacuare). — Scla- 

 ter, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 389 (Tucurriqui [Arce]). — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1891, 140 (Costa Rican references). 

 — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 509 (Rio Frio). — Ridgway, 

 Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 788 (Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa 

 Rica (Atlantic slope): Tucurriqui, San Carlos, Pacuare, Carrillo, Bonilla, 

 Guapiles, Guacimo, Rio Frio). 



Bangs Collection : Carrillo (Underwood), Rio Frio (Richmond). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection : Guacimo, Limon. 

 Fleming Collection : Reventazon (Underwood). 



Carnegie Museum : Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford) ; Guacimo, Car- 

 rillo (Carriker). Twelve skins. 



Confined to the Caribbean lowlands and lower slopes up to an alti- 

 tude of not more than 2,000 feet, and found only in the heavy forest. 

 I did not see the bird in southeastern Costa Rica but I presume it 

 occurs there, for unless found feeding, it is rarely if ever seen. I was 

 fortunate to find a tree near Guapiles where many were feeding, in 

 company with several other species of cotingas, and in three days 

 I secured ten specimens. The tree was a rather isolated one in a 

 pasture about a quarter of a mile from the heavy forest, and bore a 

 large quantity of small purplish green, berry -like fruit, upon which 

 the cotingas were gorging themselves. I occasionally saw a bird 

 after that at different times in the Santa Clara Valley, but always high 

 up in some giant forest tree. 



422. Cotinga ridgwayi Zeledon. 



Cotinga ridgwayi " Zeledon, MS.," Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 

 1, pi. 6, fig. 3 (Pozo Azul de Pirris; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Zeledon, An. 

 Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 118 (Pozo Azul de Pirris). — Sclater, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 384 (no C. R. specimens). — Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1890, 139 (Costa Rican reference). — 

 Cherrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1891-2, 1893, 37 (Lagarto). — Ridgway, Birds 

 N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 783 (western Pacific slope of Panama and 

 southwestern Costa Rica: Pozo Azul de Pirris and Pigres). 



Bangs Collection; Pozo Azul de Pirris, Feb. 15, 1898 (Underwood). 



One of the very rare birds of Central America, of which but very 



few specimens have ever been taken in Costa Rica. Nothing is known 



of its habits more than that it is confined to the heavy forests of the 



