PTEROGLOSSUS PLURICINCTUS, Gowa

Many-banded <Aracari.

Specrric CHAaRAcTER

Mas.— Pter. rostro ad basin lined elevaté flacd cincto; culmine et basi mandibule superroris,

mandibulaque inferiore nigris ; mandibule superworis latertbus aurantiaco-flavis, in _flaves-

centi-albidum versus apicem transeuntibus ; gutture gastreique fasciis duabus latis, nigris ;
CO e CO

gastro antice flavo, coccineo maculato, postice et uropygio coccineis.

Male.—Head, neck and chest black ; upper surface, wings and tail dark olive-green ; rump
blood-red ; across the abdomen two broad bands of black, the spaces between which are
rich yellow blotched with red ; lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts greenish
yellow largely stained with blood-red immediately behind the second black band,
especially on the sides ; thighs brown ; along the culmen a broad mark of black united to
a mark of the same hue, which passes down the base and occupies the lower angle of the
upper mandible, the sides of which are crange, passing into pale yellow at the tip; under
mandible black; both surrounded at the base by a raised band of rich orange-yellow ;
irides brown ; orbits grey ; legs and feet pale green.

Total length, 20 inches ; bell, 42; wing, 64; taal, 74; tarsi, 14.
Female.— Differs in having the ear-coverts chestnut-brown.
Pteroglossus pluricinctus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part IIT. p. 157.—Ib. Mon. of Ramph.,

pl. 15.—Ib. Sturm’s Edit., pl. —Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403,

Pteroglossus, sp. 4.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 94, Pteroglossus, sp. 4.

 

One among the many beneficial results to ornithological science consequent upon the increased intercourse
which has ‘of late years taken place between Europeans and the inhabitants of the Upper Amazon and the
Rio Negro, has been the acquisition of numerous examples of this fine species ; all of them, however, appear
to me He have been prepared by the Indians, and I very much question if, up to this time, any one of our
travellers have had more than a passing glance of the bird in its native wilds; it was not procured by
Mr. Wallace during his sojourn in the Rio Negro, nor was my late friend John Natterer, who resided in
the Brazils for eighteen years, more fortunate, all his specimens being also procured by the Indians. That he
saw it alive we know from the following note appended to the account of this species in Sturm’s translation
of the first edition of this work :—

«‘T have never been so fortunate as to have a recent example of the Pteroglossus pluricinctus in my hands,
but I hare seen five or six together in a tree near Villa de Thomar in the Rio Negro, and readily recognized
them with the assistance of a glass by their conspicuous bands; that it is found as far north as the Rio
Padauiri and Castanha Parana on the Orinoco, I know from the circumstance of many skins having been
brought to me by the Macunai Indians. Mr. Gould is in error when he pe eat I had pees the
sexes of the specimens in the Vienna Museum by dissection, skins only ane come into my PSR ESSIOL,

I have never seen examples of this bird among the numerous collections I have examined from the

 

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The figures are a trifle smaller than the natural size.