PTEROGLOSSUS BITORQUATUS, Fiz.

Double-collared Aracari.

 

SpPectric CHARACTER.

Pter. mandibula mferiore albidad, fascia obliqua apicali nigra ; gula guttureque castaneis, hoc

subtus nigro marginato ; torque pectoral angusta sulphureda.
oO o °o LE

Malé.—Head black ; sides of the neck and throat chestnut, bordered below by a narrow band
of black, to which succeeds a similar one of sulphur-yellow ; breast, back of the neck and
rump blood-red ; abdomen and under tail-coverts sulphur-yellow, the latter tinged with
rufous ; thighs olive; upper surface, wings and tail dark olive-green ; upper mandible
greenish yellow ; under mandible white, with an oblique mark of black occupying the
apical half; both mandibles bounded at the base with a narrow raised belt of white, within
which is a thread-like line of white, and on the lower mandible a broader line of black ;
irides orange-coloured, with a black spot on each side at their inner margin, giving the
pupil an horizontal-oval appearance; round the eye a greenish grey ring, the remainder
of the orbits beautiful vermilion-carmine red ; legs dark greyish green.

Total length, 14 inches; bell, 372; wing, 4%; taal, 53; tarsi, 14.

Pteroglossus bitorquatus, Vig. in Zool. Journ., vol. 11. p. 481.—Gould, Mon. of Ramph., pl. 16.
—Ib. Sturm’s Edit., pl. .—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. 1. p. 403,
Pteroglossus, sp. 5.— Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., Pteroglossus, sp. 5.

nigridens, Wagl.

 

Turs bird was first characterized as new to science by the late Mr. Vigors, who took the description given
by him in the second volume of the “‘ Zoological Journal ” above-quoted, from a fine specimen then in his
but since transferred to the Museum of the Zoological Society of London ; and who states that

possession,
ested by the two narrow bands, one of yellow, the other of black,

the specific name deforguatus was sugg
which surrounds the chest. SS .
In my former account of this species, I spoke of it as being remarkable for its rarity as well as its
beauty aol elezance of form,—Mr. Vigors’s specimen, one in the collection of the late Earl of Derby, and
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the Museum at Berlin, being all that had then come under my notice ; the bird is, however, no
i s having recently transml his country and to the continent.
longer rare, numerous specimens having been recently transmitted 9 this We
My own collection contains fine examples procured by Mr. Wallace in the neighbourhood of Para, on the

Lower Amazon; and other specimens, also procured by that gentleman in the same locality, form part of
5 c > ed a 5
the National collection.

The Messr S. Sturm Ss ate, s08T thei edition of this work, that the yellow cresce nt is only found on the breast
hat this 1s not always he case, aS

a third in

and that the male is entirely devoid of it; but I suspect t
cimens at the British Museum, which I have no doubt is that of a

ebted for the following description of the soft parts, the colouring
“Tris orange-coloured, with a black spot on its Inner margin

of the females,
it is very conspicuous in one of the spe
male. To those gentlemen I am also ind
of which was previously unkuown to me :—

on each side, so that the pupil appears horizontal-oval ; oe
: y mixing car -ermilion.”

» as would be produced by mixing carmine and vel

itement at the sight of a snake ; it must not, however,

 

ring surrounding the eye grey; the rest of the

orbits beautiful red, sucl

The Plate represents this species in a state otexe ,
be understood that the bird feeds upon these animals ; oe mere oe a
(as mentioned by Prince Maximilian of Wied) they are excited by the sudden appearance of any unwontec

ly so represented to show how readily

object.

4 se > two sexes > natural size.
The figures represent the two sexes of the nature