SELENIDERA REINWARDTTI.

Reinwardt’s Toucanet.

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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

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Mas.—Sel/. rostr2 dimidio basali sordide sanguineo-rufo « ;
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Male.—Head, neck, throat and ches <; ear-coverts orang i

L : | ce chest black ; ear-coverts orange, crossing obliquely a tuft of
yellow feathers ; at the nape a cresce fF yellow ; r surfac i
: ‘ ‘a a} crescent of yellow; upper surface and wings brownish
olive-green ; primaries blackish brown, margined externally with olive; flanks’ rich
orange ; abdomen mingled green and yellow ; thighs rufous; under tail-coverts crimson ;
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tail dark olive-green, the six middle feathers tipped with chestnut; orbits dark green ;

irides dark red, with a bluish lash; basal two-thirds of both mandibles dull blood-red ;

culmen, tips of both mandibles and interspaces of the serratures black ; legs and feet
green.

Total length, 13: inches; bzd/, 2%’; wing, 5; tail,5; tarsi, 14.

Female.—Head and neck dark chestnut; throat and breast paler chestnut; ear-coverts olive;

the remainder of the plumage as in the male, but much less brilliant ; irides brown.

Pteroglossus Reinwardti, Wagl. Syst. Av., Pteroglossus, sp. 11.—Gould in Proce. of Zool.
Soc., Part III. p. 157—Gould, Mon. of Ramph., pl. 26.—Ib. Sturm’s Edit., pl. = .—
Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 404, Péeroglossus, sp. 22.

Selenidera Reinwardti, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 95, Selenedera, sp. 4.

 

Tue single specimen of this bird in the Munich Collection was the only one known when the first edition
of this work was published; during the interval of twenty years that has since elapsed, several other
examples have been sent to Europe, and individuals of both sexes now form part of my own collection ; these
latter were collected on the eastern slopes of the Andes, in the rich country of Peru. Sir William Jardine,
Bart., has just received an example from Professor Jameson of Quito, which I believe was procured from
the banks of the River Napo, while the Munich specimen was from the western borders of Brazil; we may
skirting the eastern dip of the Andes for ten degrees
on either side of the equator are its true and natural habitat. Although the colouring of its bill assi-

milates somewhat to that of S. piperivora and S. Nattereri, the bird is quite distinct from both of them.
h difference in the thickness of the bill,

not an indication of their being

infer, therefore, that the great primeval forests

In the several specimens that I have seen, I have observed muc er
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some being much more dilated than others; and Iam not sure that this
elphia Museum, and a female in my own, bs
ing ir Willie ‘line. It is one o

hat belonging to Sir William Jardine

; . : Oh; have the bills much
two species: the specimens in the Philad

thicker than the one in the Munich Museum, and than t
the rarest of the Toucanets.

The figures represent the two sexes of the size of life, on
Rio de Janeiro.

a plant sent to me by Thomas Reeves, Esq., of