PTEROGLOSSUS VIRIDIS.

Green Aragari.

  
  
   
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
   
  
  
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
    
 
  
 

SpEcIFIC CHARACTER.

Mas. Mandibuld superiore culmine Jiavo; & lateribus castaneo-rufis, supra lined longitudinal

ae = eee ae
nigra ; mandbula inferiore negra, ad basin coccinea ; capite colloque nigris.
Feem. Capite colloque castaneis.

Male.—The whole of the head, neck and throat glossy black ; back, wings, upper tail-coverts,
tail and thighs olive-green ; rump deep blood-red ; under surface greenish yellow ; sides of
the upper mandible and a small space round the nostrils rich chestuut-red, bounded above
by a line of black ; culmen yellow, cutting edge white; at the base of the under mandible
a triangular mark of scarlet, the remainder black, passing into blue immediately before the
scarlet; bare skin before and below the eye rich deep blue, grad ually becoming paler and
more beautiful, and with a greenish tinge on the upper part in front of the eye, and of a
paler blue bounded by a mark of deep red above and behind the eye; irides reddish
chestnut ; legs grass-green, becoming of a bluer tinge on their under surface.

Total length, 13: inches; Did/, 3}; wing, 4; tail, 53; tarsi, 1%.

Female.—Similar to the male, except that the head, neck and throat are rich chestnut, fringed

on the latter with black.

 

Ramphastos viridis, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p- 150.—ITb. Gmel. Edit., tom. i. p. 353.—Lath.
Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 138.—Shaw, Nat. Misc., ple v7.

Tucana Cayanensis, Briss. Orn., tom. iv. p. 423. pl. xxxui. fig. 2—Ib. 8vo. tom. ii. p. 162.

 

Toucan verd de Cayenne, Buff. Pl. Enl., 727, 728.—Ib. Hist des Ois., tom. vii. Ds 127.

Yellow-hreasted Toucan, Edw. Glean., pl. 329.

Green Toucan, Lath. Gen. Syn., tom. i. p. 131.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 370. pl. 48.—
Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 288.

Pteroglossus viridis, Ill. Prod., p. 202.—Swains. Zool. Il., vol. iii. pl. 169.—Wall. Syst. Av.,
Pteroglossus, sp. 6.—Gould, Mon. of Ramph., pl. 21—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of
Birds, vol. i. p. 403, Pteroglossus, sp. 8—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 94, Ptero-
glossus, sp. 8.

LT Aracari verd, Levaill. Hist. Nat. des Ois. de Parad., pp. 41, 43. pls. 16, 17.

Ramphastos glaber, Lath. Ind. Orn., tom. 1. p. 138.

 

Smooth-billed Toucan, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp., p. 67.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 375.—
Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 280.

Pteroglossus brevirostris, Less. ‘Vraité d'Orn., p. 198!

 

Tuts species of Aragari is distributed over Guiana, Cayenne, and the adjacent northern countries of tropical
America, where it would seem to be very abundant, few collections being sent from thence to Europe which
do not comprise specimens of both sexes. The living ee which Oniiaticyred the Gardens of the
Zoological Society in 1844, afforded me an opportunity of ascertaining the colouring of the soft parts,
which are correctly represented on the accompanying Plate, oe which were per oasly EOE,

As will be seen, there is a marked difference in the colouring of the sexes, the female having the head,
neck and throat chestnut instead of black, as in the male.
The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size.