ANDIGENA HY POGLAUCUS, Gould.

Grey-breasted Hill Toucan.

    
 
 

SPECIFIC G HARACTER.

  
 

ud. mandibults fined bhasah circumdatis, ula triangulari s negra ride
in itis, macula t) zangulart subbasali negra plagdque viridi-

flava ngro-marginata notatis ; superioris culmine latertbusque

    
 

antrorsum saturate sanguineis,
ane —- . A a fakcts z
inferiore, nist basin versus, atra; corpore enferrore cceruleo-cano.

    
   
 

Crown of the head and occiput black ; back, shoulders and thighs rich reddisl

   

1 brown; outer edges
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of the primaries and secondaries green, inner edges brown ; rump light greenish yellow ;

upper tail-coverts greenish olive ; tail blackish olive, the four middle feathers tipped with

    
    
  
 
 
 
 
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
   
 

brown; the whole of the under surface and the collar surrounding the neck silvery grey ;
at the base of the upper mandible a narrow line of yellow, succeeded by a nearly triangular
mark of black ; an irregular mark of greenish yellow next succeeds, edged by a line of
black ; the culmen and the remainder of the sides dull red ; the basal half of the under
mandible has the yellow, black and greenish yellow colouring of the upper, but its apical
half is black instead of red ; feet blue.

Total length, 18+ inches; dz//, 4; wing, 63; tail, 7; tarsi, 14.

Pteroglossus hypoglaucus, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part I. p. 70.—Ib. Mon. of Ramph.,
pl. 19.—Ib. Sturm’s Edit., pl. —Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 403,

Pteroglossus, sp. 9.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 94, Pteroglossus, sp. 9.

 

Lirre more is now known respecting this species than was recorded in the first edition of this work, nearly
twenty years ago. The two specimens from which my figure was taken had been sent to me by my valued
correspondent D. Christie, Esq., of Popayan, and I have never received a third example ; ine celebrated
traveller M. Delattre, however, met with it in his rambles, and sent two or three specimens to Europe, oe
at Paris, the other in the British Museum. The bill

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of the latter specimen is very short, while that of the example in the Jardin des Plantes is fully as loi ga
; h: and, as well as the specimen in the British

of which is in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes

have represented it in the former edition of my Monograp
he ereenish yellow on the sides of the mandibles ;
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ll-defined, while the back is ornamented with a
in this species not only render it conspicu-

Museum, is in every respect richer in colour, particularly in t
the yellow of the rump too is extremely beautiful and we
collar of bluish grey. The harlequin-like markings of the bill : he paile
ously different from the other members of its genus, but from every other ae a oy i ast wooded
ieiGrey_breasted Aracari is an inhabitant of the mountains, and is only to be found on the highest we

ee ee ee wny texture of its plumage
portion of the Andes, for which elevated and cold situations the full and downy t ae Lae
ristic of the three other species of this form since dis .

admirably adapts i feature equally characte : mee
epee 2 feature equally che ustre which pervades the fine grey tints

The specific name given to this bird refers to the beautiful silvery
spread over the breast and under surface.

The figures are of the natural size.