SELENIDERA GOULDI

Gould’s Toucanet.

SPECIFIC Cr ARACTER.

Mas.—Seé. mandibuld superiore nigra, apicem versus livide corned, apice alba fascidique aneustd
alba ad basin; mandibulé inferiore alba fascié nioré apiceque livide corneo pedibu

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plumbers.

Male.— Crown, nape, throat and chest deep shining black: ear-covert
, nape, rf st deep shining black; ear-coverts deep orange, posterior to

which is a second tuft of yellow, the two crossing obliquely ; at the nape a crescent of pale
BOW packs wings and upper tail-coverts rich olive-green; primaries dark brown, exter-
nally margined with olive ; tail dark olive-green, inclining to brown; six middle feathers
tipped with chestnut; abdomen yellowish green; flanks orange; thighs rufous; under
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tail-coverts crimson ; upper mandible black, bounded along the serratures and posteriorly
with white, and bordered next the face with a very narrow line of greenish yellow ; under
mandible yellowish white, crossed near the apex with a band of black, and bordered
at the base with greenish yellow ; tips of both mandibles very delicate green ; orbits pea-
green ; irides pea-green, with a circle of pale yellow next the pupil; feet green.

Total length, 13 inches; b//, 2+; wing, 5; tail, 5; tarsi, 14.

Female.—Head, neck, throat and breast reddish brown, inclining to chestnut on the former ;
ear-coverts reddish olive ; in all other points the plumage is the same as in the male; the
bill is also very similar, but not so brightly coloured, and moreover has the greenish

yellow mark at the base of the under mandible dilated into a triangular form.

Pteroglossus Gouldii, Natt. in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. p. 44.—Sturm’s Edit. of Gould's
Mon. of Ramph., pl. .—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. 11. p. 404, Preroglossus,

sp. 19.
Pteroglossus (Selenidera) Gouldii, Gould, Icon. Av., pl.

Selencdera Gouldi, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 95, Selenidera, sp. 1.

 

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Tuis bird was figured for the first time in my ‘ Icones Avium,” from specimens presented to the oe

1 1 Jatterer of Vienna, w rocure , nthe banks of the
Society of London by the late M. John Natterer of Vienna, who had procured them o : ae :

1 ira 1 i ino of the Society he 11th of April, 1837, had been
River Madeira in Brazil, and who at the Meeting of the Society, held on t pril, :
pleased to name the species after myself. Since that period a great number of examples have come under
my notice from the banks of the River Amazon, which
every respect wit
hich the species is very nearly allied, but from

may be considered one of the natural localities of

: . Jatterer’s ; > of them exhibiting a
the bird: all these specimens correspond in h M. Natterer’s ; none of gi

tendency to partake of the characters of S§. maculirostris, to w : : ae Pay
which it differs in the single large patch of black on the upper mandible, in the more intense orange
colouring of the sides of the body, and in a slight dive

Although I have been so fortunate as to see many examples,
and may be considered one of the rarest of the genus.
The Plate represents two males and a female of the

rsity in the colouring of the orbits and irides.
it is a species seldom found in collections,

natural size.

  
  
  
   
 
  
   
  
 
 
   
  
   
  
 
    
  
   
  
  
   
  
    
    
  
 

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