Cotingas (Cotingidae)

Snowy Cotinga (Carpodectes nitidus) - HBW 9, p. 97

French: Cotinga neigeux German: Grauscheitelkotinga Spanish: Cotinga Níveo

Taxonomy: Carpodectes nitidus Salvin, 1865, Tucurriquí, Costa Rica.
Very closely related to C. antoniae and sometimes treated as conspecific, but differs in, especially, bill colour; the two replace each other geographically. Both have been considered conspecific with C. hopkei by some authors. Monotypic.

Distribution: Caribbean slope from NW Honduras S to extreme W Panama.