PTEROGLOSSUS AZAR.

Azara’s Aracari.

 
   
    

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

   

Pter. rostro stramineo-flavo ; mandibulce superioris lateribus macula longitudinali rufa.

 
 

Male.—Crown of the head black ; back of the neck dark chestnut-red ; upper surface very dark
green; primaries black, edged with very dark green ; rump deep blood-red ; cheeks and

throat blackish chestnut, bounded below by a narrow line of deep black; across the

  
    
  
 
 
  
  
   
 
 
 
 
  
  
    
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

breast a broad crescentic mark of blood-red ; on the upper part of the abdomen a broad
band of black tinged with green ; lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts yellow,
stained with blood-red next the black band ; thighs olive ; bill delicate straw-yellow, with

a broad streak of red along the sides of the upper mandible, bounded below by an inter-

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rupted narrow line of orange ; irides dark carmine-red; orbits immediately round the eye

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dark greenish grey, inclining to indigo-blue, and with a patch of red at the anterior angle

above, and another in the posterior angle behind the eye; legs green.
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Total length, 142 inches; bell, 3%; wing, 5; tatl, 5%; tarsi, 1.

Female.—Similar in colour, but with the chestnut hue of the throat paler, and the black mark

bounding it below more conspicuous than in the male.

\ LE’ Aracari Azara, Levaill. Hist. Nat. des Ois. de Parad., Supp., p. 40. t. A.
VA tamphastos Azara, Vieill. 2nde Edit. du Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., tom. xxxiv. p. 283.—Ib.
| Ency. Méth. Orn., part ii. p. 1431.
Pteroglossus Azare, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., tom. ii. pl. et p. (aot numbered).—Wagl. Syst. Av.,
: Pteroglossus, sp. 3.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 403, Ptero-
glossus, sp. 6.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., Pteroglossus, sp. 6.—Sturm’s Edit. of

Gould’s Mon. of Ramph., pl.

 

Ir gives me great pleasure to figure this, the true P. Azare of Levaillant, from very recently killed speci-
mens sent fo this countrv by Mr. Wallace from the Rio Negro on the Amazon; by means of which I am
enabled to give a representation of the colouring of the soft parts as they appear in life it wall be seen es
they give a very beautiful appearance to the bird, and consequently add materially to its interest. Since
the publication of the first edition of this work, numerous examples have os a “ ues SOMME prince
cipally, however, by Sir Robert Schomburgk, who collected them during his penn Ons ae the interior of
British Guiana. Little difference in size exists between this species and P. flavirostris ; ee iS, OneTa, the
smaller of the two; but, with the exception of the bill, the two birds are precisely alike in their colouring
it is certainly one of the most elegant species of the genus, and it is much to be regretted that nothing
is known of ie habits and economy of so beautiful a bird.

The figures represent the two sexes of the size of life.