Cotingas (Cotingidae)

Pompadour Cotinga (Xipholena punicea) - HBW 9, p. 97

French: Cotinga pompadour German: Amazonien-Pompadourkotinga Spanish: Cotinga Pompadour

Taxonomy: Turdus puniceus Pallas, 1764, South America = Surinam.
Forms a superspecies with X. lamellipennis and X. atropurpurea; only marginal range overlap with first of those in Brazil (W bank of lower R Tapajós, in W Pará). Monotypic.

Distribution: Extreme E Colombia (Arauca, Vichada S to N Vaupés), S & E Venezuela (S of R Orinoco), the Guianas, N & C Amazonian Brazil (E to Amapá and, S of Amazon, R Juruá E to W Pará and S to S Mato Grosso), NE Peru (Loreto) and extreme NE Bolivia (Serranía de Huanchaca); single record from SE Ecuador.