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Purple-throated cotinga : ウィキペディア英語版
Purple-throated cotinga

The purple-throated cotinga (''Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema'') is a species of bird in the cotinga family, Cotingidae. It is found in the western Amazonian region of South America; its range extends from southern Colombia south through eastern Ecuador and Peru and east through extreme northwestern Bolivia and into western Amazonian Brazil. It lives in the canopy or along the borders of humid forest throughout its range. The purple-throated cotinga is monotypic within the genus ''Porphyrolaema'' and has no known subspecies. It is one of the smaller cotinga species and expresses strong sexual dimorphism. Males have black upperparts with a bold white wingstripe and white edges to the tertial feathers and a white belly with some black barring on the rear flanks. The throat is a deep purple, giving the bird both its common and scientific names. Females are dark brown with pale buffy margins on the upperparts, buffy cinnamon with black barring on the underparts, and rufous on the throat. The male has a powerful voice.
Little research has been done on this species, and not much is known about its ecology. The purple-throated cotinga is primarily frugivorous, although it does occasionally eat small insects. A solitary male attracts a female by perching in the canopy and letting the sunlight reflect off of its iridescent feathers. It is suspected to breed year-round and is non-migratory. Despite being considered naturally uncommon or rare across its vast range, the purple-throated cotinga is listed as a species of Least Concern.
==Taxonomy==
The purple-throated cotinga was originally described in 1852 as ''Cotinga porphyrolaema'' by Emile Deville and Philip Sclater from a male specimen collected near the Ucayali River in Peru's Sarayacu District. The holotype is kept at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. However, just two years later the species was split from the genus ''Cotinga'' into the monotypic genus ''Porphyrolaema'' by Charles Lucien Bonaparte.〔 The generic and specific name of ''porphyrolaema'' comes from the Ancient Greek words ''porphyros'' "dark purple," and ''laimos'', "throat."
While it is structurally similar to the ''Cotinga'' species, the purple-throated cotinga differs from them in that it has a heavier, stubbier bill, distinctive pale fringing on the back feathers, and barred underparts in the female. While it is still generally considered to be closely related to the ''Cotinga'' species, recent molecular analysis has suggested that the species may in fact form a separate clade with other canopy-dwelling cotingas, specifically the neotropical bellbirds of the genus ''Procnias'', the cotingas of the genus ''Carpodectes'', the black-faced cotinga of the monotypic genus ''Conioptilon'', and the bare-necked fruitcrow of the monotypic genus ''Gymnoderus''. Of these genera, the molecular analysis suggested that the purple-throated cotinga was most closely related to the neotropical bellbirds.〔 This cotinga does not have a recognized subspecies.〔

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