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AULACORAMPHUS CARULEICINCTUS

Blue-banded Groove-bill.

PECIFIC CHARACTER.

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parte anteca lineolaque supra oculos albidis

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atch of dee nod-red ; four centre tail-f
p eep blood-red ; four centre tail-feathers largely tipped with chestnut-]
i. —  ... Soh) -hestnut-brown ;
stripe over the eye, sides of the face and throat white washed posteriorly with bl
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coverts, chest and all the under surface yellowish green, deepening into ruf
under tail-coverts; across the lower ¢ : Se one
s; across the lower part of the chest a band of light blue ; primaries blacl
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margined externally with green; bill dark is | . i
2 \ oTeen ; ark bluish lead-colour, becoming li
g sh lez ur, becoming lighter towards
the tip, which, as well as the serrations of a
: , as as the serrations of both mandibles, are whitish horn-colour ; feet
lead-colour.
Total length, 152 inches; Sell, 33; wang, 5%; tail, 6+; tars, 13.
Pteroglossus ceeruleicinctus, D’Orb. Voy. dans | Amér. Mér. Ois., tab. 66. fig. 2—Gray and
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Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. 30.
Lichtensteiniz, Sturm’s Edit. of Gould’s Mon. of Ramph.

Aulacoramphus ceruleicinctus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 96, Aulacoramphus, sp. 8.

 

Like Aulacoramphus atrogularis, this well-marked species is an ‘nhabitant of the Cinchona woods, clothing
the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes, where it is known to the Indians by the name of Chukimbc.

This species was named by the Messrs. Sturm Péeroglossus Lichtensteinit, in honour of my old and valued
friend Dr. Lichtenstein, the Director of the Royal Museum ‘n Berlin, and it would have given me very great
pleasure to have retained this justly complimentary appellation for so fine a bird; but as J find that it had
been previously called c@ruleicinctus by M. D’Orbigny, the iges me to give this name the

preference.
The Aulacoramphus ca@ruleicinctus 1s rendered remarkable by the blue-grey colouring of its bill, by its

white throat, and by the czrulean blue band crossing the chest. It 1s a very rare S}
in the Collection at the Jardin des Plantes at Paris, and in

law of priority obl

yecies, but specimens

are contained in the Royal Museum at Berlin,
my own.

The figures are of the natural size.

   
 
      
          
    
  

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