Cotingas (Cotingidae)

Plum-throated Cotinga (Cotinga maynana) - HBW 9, p. 94

French: Cotinga des Maynas German: Veilchenkehlkotinga Spanish: Cotinga Mayna

Taxonomy: [Ampelis] Maynana Linnaeus, 1766, Maynas, Peru.
May form a superspecies with C. amabilis, C. ridgwayi, C. nattererii, C. cotinga and C. maculata, and all sometimes treated as conspecific. Monotypic.

Distribution: C & W Amazon Basin in S Colombia, E Ecuador, E Peru, Brazil (E to lower R Negro and lower R Madeira) and N Bolivia.