AULACORAMPHUS PRaginu;

Golden-green Groove-bil]

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SPECIF
ECIFIC ( HARACTER.

Aul. mandibulé superiore flava, culminis strigd
: e flava, culminis strigd, macula ante nares. Iine/,
S, lenedque ad tomi
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omum nigris ;

. a,
inferiore nigra; corpore superiore aureo-viridi

Upper surface golden green, passing into blue on th t 1
: : =O} e extremities of tl i
apical portion of the tail-fe: er ea : ie
: : 4 : tail feathers, of which the lateral ones are largel 1 tl ae
shohtly tp ped wi a : “ i : — argely and the centre S
ghity up} ith chestnut ; primaries brownish black maregined at tl | oe
webs with green ; throat : Ae » Margined at the hase of the er
| g : oat and cheeks yellowish white ; under surface li ee
with blue on the breast and fading into white tl a s oe ae
| 2 int e on the vent; under tail-c
upper mandible ye Sa 7 ; ail-coverts chestnut ;
upp | é yellow , with a patch of black at the base of the culmen I S81 cotly
into chestnut-red ; < ae ; i : » passing anteriorly
ed; an oblong spot of black before the nostrils, and a streak of tl mn :
: ‘a EC | , S, a streak of thes
along the serratures, above which is a wash of ere ee
' | a wash of green ; under mandible black, witl
narrow line of yellowish white at the base —

Total length, 14 inches; Sz//, 35; wing, 53; tal, 6; tarsi, 1+

teroglossus prasinus, Licht. in Mus. Berl.—Gould, Mon. of Ramph., pl. 29.—Ib. Sturm’
; a ee é . pl. 29.—Ib. Sturm’s
Edit., pl. © .—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. 13

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Autnoucu by far , i
by far the greater number of the Aulacoramphi are inhabitants of the great continent of South

America ‘ti

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proper, yet we have positive proofs that two species at least are found to the northward of the
h is a native of Veragua and doubtless of Costa Rica, and

is : : “¢ : :
a namely the beautiful 4. ceruleogularis, whic
the 4. prasin ee ;
. prasinus, whic Bite Guatemala < ie oe eee SS
P , ch inhabits Guatemala and the southern provinces of Mexico generally : to these districts
r pass to the southward of Panama: a circum-

they w :
y would seem to be confined, and I believe that they neve
1 of this neutral

stance which s tos inion, 1
a tends to support such an opinion, 1s, that the countries to the north and soutl
fi = —- i . :
nd have each a peculiar fauna of their own; more In
orm, W ur oc ;
When I figured this species, twenty years ago, It was very
ples, some 0

regard to species, however, than to diversity of
rare; it is now to be met with in
collections ; in my own there are four or five exam f which were procured by that inde-
atigable traveller M. Delattre, while the others were presented to me by my valued friend and corre-
spondent M. Floresi. a

Of the habits and economy of the Golden-green Groove-bill
no information to communicate :
seen in the accom}
uring its progress from

f the whole family : the

, as distinguished in the minuter details from
those of the other species of the genus, I have the sexes present the usual
similarity of appearance ; on the other hand, in the young bird yanying Plate,
the size, but in the colouring
s alone, but characteristic 0
hat of the rest of the
re than half the size

, as will be
oc difference occurs, not only in of its bill, d
ee to maturity,—a feature not peculiar to this specie
evelopment of the beak, also, is much more gradual than t
is little mo

latte it 1
te canircd ; : : é rwards
S acquired its complete dimensions, the former it is. oftenwas

to attain.
s, of the natural size.

The , i
Plate represents a male, a female, and the heads of two young bird

body ; for when the

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