AULACORAMPHUS WaGLgER]

Wagler’s Grooye-bil]

PECIFIC CHARACTER.

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nets.

B
General plumage deep green, with a wash of
Be cdeed witl é a wash of blue on the tips of the
k, edged with green; tail deep ee a. ps the secondaries: primar;
green, passing into blue near tl pe
: ar the extremity
y and largely

tipped with ric |
pped with rich chestnut; the portion of the cheeks j
cheeks immec

throat white, with a slight wash of blue where it lately behind the bill and the
: ere 1t meets the ere P
under tail-coverts chest . 1e green of the neck
stnut ; base C le neck ¢ ae
eeu ; base of the culmen, a large nearlv tria | < and chest ;
angle of the upper mandible, and a |i ge nearly triangular patch in the lower
upper 0 lil 4 icl le, and a line along the denticulations blacl | ae
Senile rich vellow. with a I; oes ‘ s black ; remainder of
—. yellow, with a line of pale green along the lower ee r of the
separating It from the black of the denticulati , | j re: eae
ations; under mandible enti :
mandibles bounded randible entirely black
s be at See by y black, b
vd the base by a somewhat broad raised band f . = oe
~ a ate od als an > oar eee 4
ides orange; orbits deep rose-red ; legs and feet leaden-bl and of orange-yellow ;
? Sr ¢ : eaden-bp Lue.

Total length, 14 inches; Sz//, 33; wing, 5%; tadl, 5+; tarsi, |
oe; , 543 tarsi, 14.

Pteroglossus pavoni
Z£ Ss pavoninus, in Roy: : . ;
I ae Royal Mus. of Munich.—Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soe Pe Hill

p: f50.—Ib. M 2 . Qo ‘ ° =
on. Ramph. pl. 30.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. 11. p. 404, Péero

glossus, sp. 20.
Pterogloss ‘agleri, S ’s Edi
elossus Wagleri, Sturm’s Edit. of Gould’s Mon. of Ramph., pl

Aulacoran L / ) ; )
ipnus Ppavoninus B S 3 SD

Us 9I0ONAa ). Cons ). ( Se y q Q é -
| | ren. AV 9 Pp: Yo, Aulacoramphus, Sp. 2.

 

Tar Prer
er og lossus Sturmi | 1 j
5 oe 22 b 7 ie > » 1 f I;
eing unique in the Imperial Museum ot Vienna, and the Aulacoramphus Waglert

in the Royal Muse Unni

of obtaining oo _ I : under the necessity of visiting both those cities for the purpose

Be aco e ie. _ ~ nt work; the information J procured respecting these Toucans twenty

BF os to the gore. nor has our knowledge been increased in the interval. Considerable confusion

1 f name of the present species ; it has cenerall

= 2cere . +

Esa I since . es that Wagler gave that name in mistake to an exam
ws by Dr. Lichtenstein, and add that two other species had also been confounded under

e is singularly inappropriate,

1 us of a Peacock ; and moreover state their

cimen which had had some

ple of the bird pre-

the sa Rie:

BE ie crccanee = remark alvat the nam | inasmuch as there 1s
ME that the eet? ne or colouring of the bird to remin¢
, that the name had in the first instance been applied to a made-up spe
under these circumst
pliment to their friend Dr. Wagler, who
he accidental discharge of
lented and

feathers j

rs inserte a ‘ : : :

the na ed, thus giving rise to a false impression ; ances they have discarded

Meraltooether -; a : : ]
together and proposed that of Wagleri, as a just com

| whose untimely death by t

had d

one s i c. : : ;
0 much for the science of ornithology, ant

of one of her most ta

a gun duri .

5 uring S ee . ‘ : ‘ ;
i ihnsinct: g a shooting excursion, deprived natural history of the service
usiastic professors. :

The 4,
ulacor We. c : : : f
acoramphus Wagleri is said to be anative of Mexico.

Prasinus, b :

ut + he ee : : Z
. may be distinguished from that species by its more atte
and by the large amount ol bl

allied to the Aulacoramphus
greater breadth and
upper

It is very nearly

m nuated bill, by the
ore ors ss y y

i ange hue of the raised band at its base, ack near the base of the

mandible, ’

iT ae
he figure is of the size of life.

y been known as the Pteroglossus pavoninus of

  
 
 
  
   
  
  
  
     
  

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