SELENIDERA NATTERERI, Gowa

NT ’
Natterer’s Toucanet.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Mas.—Sel. rostro rubro, ad apic RR ee Tee oe ;
Mas.—S : picem flavescenti albido ; lined culminal, macula ad latera utriusque

mandibule, maculaque supra singularem serraturam viridi : serraturis albis

Male —Head, ae throat and breast black; ear-coverts pale lemon-yellow, passing into dull
orange ; at the nape a crescent of pale yellow ; upper surface, wings and tail olive-green ;
tips of the six middle tail-feathers chestnut ; flanks orange, passing into the chestnut of the
thighs ; under tail-coverts dull crimson; bill red ; culmen light green ; a patch on the side
of each mandible near the base and a small irregular mark above each of the serratures
dull dark green ; serratures white ; tips of both mandibles yellowish white ; orbits dull
deep green ; irides crimson; eyelash blue; legs and feet dull green.

Total length, 13 inches ; bell, 2%; wing, 51; tail, 5; tarsi, 1%.

Female.—Head and neck reddish chestnut, under surface of a similar but paler hue; ear-coverts
chestnut-yellow ; the remainder of the plumage as in the male, except that there is only a

faint tinge of the orange hue on the flanks.

Pteroglossus Nattereri, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part II. p. 157.—Gould, Mon. of
Ramph., pl. 25.—Ib. Sturm’s Edit., pl. .—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. it. p. 404,
Pteroglossus, sp. 21.

Selenidera Nattereri, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 95, Sedenedera, sp. 3.

 

Ix the first edition of this Monograph, I remarked, that ‘‘ although I have at all times endeavoured to avoid
imposing a specific title on a new species, which did not convey some idea connected with its form and
‘rom this rule in the present instance, from an earnest desire to pay

colouring, I have been induced to deviate f ae
] onal exertions in the Brazilian forests

a just tribute of respect to a most able naturalist, through whose pers | ee
‘ansmitte enn > capital of tha

for the long period of eighteen years, a vast collection has been transmitted to Vienna, the on) E :
; able “osec is researches.” 1ortly

country by the munificence of whose government he was enabled to prosecute his researche Sh .
his If and every lover of natural history had to lament the loss of this

after this paragraph was written, myse ae
i tuated the name of my

ornament to science; I, however, had the satisfaction of knowing that I had pery ;
the specimens in the Imperial Museum, from which
on i . interval which has elapsed, many others
my figures were taken, were the only examples in Europe; 1n the interval which has elay a } on
we 1 tl ie) i e M. Natterer’s specimens were collected on the Rio Madeira; Su
lave come under my notice: I believe M. \Natterers : S ae ae
] ; ‘a interior of Britis iana; and Mr. Wallace
Robert Schomburek brought numerous examples from the far mterio1 of British Guiana; ¢
ao a ects bordering the tributaries of the Upper
observed it on the Upper Rio Negro ; consequently the forests bordering
i ‘der » habit “this fine species.
Amazon, towards the Andes, may be considered the habitat of this I
as to its habits and economy.

friend by naming this species after him. At that time

At present nothing whatever is known
The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size.