AULACORAMPHUS SULCATUS

Groove-bill.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Aul. rostro attenuato ; hulle
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2 dibulis compressis, sulcatis, superioris sulcis utrin luok
unicis ; superiore nigra, culmine apiceque saturate rufo-b que duobus, inferroris
ee Zoos é€ rufo-brunnead ; enferiore niora
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sanguinea. i Mjertore mera ad basin

Upper surface dark grass-green ; under surface lighter yellowis|
coverts yellowish ; throat - > lighter yellowish green; cheeks blue; ear-
s sh; throat grey ; cheeks and narrow stri |
grey ; cheeks ow stripe over the eye blue; primari
— eye blue ; primaries
black, margined externally at the base with green; upper portion of the sides of :
: ' ereen ; uppe ‘tion of the sides of the upper
mandible, a 2 apical part of the =
é , and the apical part of the culmen chocolate-brown; basal portion of the t
and lower mandible black, wi ’ dies aoe
7 r mandible black, with the exception of the base, which is yellowish flesh-colour ;
at the bas * the mez aac ee ; 7 fs ‘ .
ase of the mandibles a narrow thread-like line of white; orbits brown; feet dark
green. | yy

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Total length, 13 inches; Az//, 3; wing, 4%; tail, 5; tarsi, 13

Pteroglossus sulcatus, Swains. in Journ. of Roy. Inst., vol. ix. p. 267.—Ib. Zool. Ill. Ist Ser
vol. i. pl.44.—Temm. PI. Col., pl. 356.—Gould’s Mon. of Ramph., pl. 31.—Ib. Sturm’s
Edit., pl. =.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. it. p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. 25.

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ulaco7 amphus sulcatus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 95, Aulacoramphus, sp. 1.

 

 

y grooved fissures on the sides of that organ,

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species differs from all its congeners; but it 1s more nearly allied to 4. Derdianus than to any other.
it to frequent the country to the northward of the
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Ix the narrow and attenuated form of the bill, and the deep!

: precise habitat is still unknown to me, but I believe
iver Amazon, between Guiana and the Caraccas. Al

to Rent . : . ps
many of the ornithological collections of Europe. The same }
se former edition of this work, still exists. I

bird; and if this supposition be

though not so rare as formerly, it 1s stil
yaucity of information, which prevented

Megrom civine anv
e from giving any details as to its habits and economy 1n tl
ave in my collection examples of what I believe to be both sexes of this

, as well as the hue of the plumage, are precisely alike ; and the

correct, the form and colouring of the bill
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nly difference is the somewhat smaller size of the female.

The figures are of the size of life.

  
  
  
   
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
  
   
 
   
   
     

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