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SELENIDERA MACULIROSTRIS.

Spotted-billed Toucanet.

Specrerc CHaracrer.
Mas.—Sel. mandibula superiore ad latera maculis transversis neers wrregulariter fasciata

Male—Crown of the head, nape, throat and chest deep shining black; ear-coverts deep orange,
crossing obliquely a tuft of pale yellow ; crescentic mark at the nape pale yellow ; back
wings and upper tail-coverts rich olive-green ; primaries brown, margined externally with
olive; tail dark olive-green, inclining to brown, the six central feathers tipped with
chestnut; abdomen yellowish green ; flanks orange; thighs mingled rufous and green ;
under tail-coverts crimson ; bill whitish horn-colour; culmen and tips of both mandibles
pale green; sides washed with pale bluish green; upper mandible crossed by irregular
bars of black, and the lower one by a single nearly vertical band of the same hue near the
apex, meeting an oblique mark on the upper mandible; orbits fine yellowish green ; inner
circumference of the irides yellow, outer pale green, clouded anterior and posterior to
the pupil with dark brown ; tarsi and toes dark green.

Yotal length, 13 inches; 2//, 2+; wing, 5%; taal, 54; tarsi, 14.

Female.—Crown of the head, throat and breast reddish brown, inclining to chestnut on the
former ; flanks pale orange ; ear-coverts reddish olive ; in every other respect the plumage
of the female resembles that of the male; the bill is also very similar, but is not so richly

coloured, and has the transverse markings less defined and not so numerous.

After death the delicate green colouring of the mandibles disappears and leaves the sides

more horny.

Pteroglossus maculirostris, Licht. Verz. der Doubl., p. 7. No. 95.—Wagl. Syst. Av., Ptero-

glossus, sp. 9.—Gould, Mon. of Ramph., pl. 94.—Ib. Sturm’s Edit., pi. © —Gray and
Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. 20.

L’ Aracari Koulik mile du Brésil, Le Vail. QOis. de Parad.,tom. i. p. 39. pl. 15.—Female, Ib.
Supp., p. 41. fig. A, A.

Ramphastos maculatus, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., tom. ii.—Supp. texte et pls. male et femelle.—
Jard. & Selby, Ill. Orn., vol. i. pl. 26.

Sere Toucan. Lath. Gen. Hist: of Birds, vol. 1. p. 292- pl. xxx. female.
oy . : - ae : a Y ee 2 9.
Selenidera maculirostris. Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 95, Selenrdera, sp.

st of the Toucanets, few collections of any magnitude being
common than the other species of the genus, which
e been less frequently visited by collectors.
abundant are the southern and eastern

Tuts is generally regarded as the commone
without examples; in reality, however, it is not more
cause their native localities hav
appears to be most
subsists upon

are simply more rare with us, be
The portions of South America in which it
districts of Brazil, where it frequents the virgin forests and pee
( illars but this is at present unascerte :
also fee aterpillars and o a i
aoe ee - Prince Maximilian of Weid, to
The following note has been kindly commu

fruits and berries ; it is probable

ther insects,
ficated to me by His Highness
whom my thanks are due :—

The §. maculirostris ‘“‘ appears to be le
observed by me. Its mode of life and economy were ]
the Rio melmonte and the Rio Parde it was known by t
killed male was 13 inches; breadth 16 inches.”

The Plate represents two males and a female of the

ss abundant in the eastern parts of Brazil than the other species
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ar to those of the Common Aracart. On

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natural size.

   
 
 
  
  
 
  
   
  
  
   

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