cotinga

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The most interesting birds he shot were a cotinga, brilliant turquoise-blue with a magenta- purple throat, and a big woodpecker, black above and cinnamon below with an entirely red head and neck.

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  1. The native name of several South American manakins: applied to sundry cotingine birds. [capitalized] Applied in 1760 by Brisson to the blue purple-breasted manakin of Edwards, thus becoming in ornithology a genus having this species, Ampelis cotinga (Linnæus), or Cotinga cændea, as its type; since made the typical genus of the family Cotingidæ. [capitalized] Applied in 1786 by Merrem to a genus of related birds, the cocks-of-the-rock (Rupicolinæ), of the genus Phænicercus.
  2. Any bird of the family Cotingidæ.

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  1. New Latin, from South American native name.
 

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