PTEROGLOSSUS ARACARL.

Cayenne Aracari.

    
    
 

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Pter. mandibula superiore stramined, macula lata culminali nigra ; mferiore nigra ; rostro toto

 
 

hast albocincto ; femoribus olivaceis.

 
  

Head, neck and throat deep black; back, wings upper tail-coverts and tail rich olive-green ;

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orimaries dark brown; rump blood-red; under surface greenish yellow, crossed on the
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upper part of the abdomen by a broad band of blood-red ; thighs olive-brown ; upper

 
 

mandible straw-colour, with a broad mark of black along the culmen; under mandible

 
 

black ; at the base of both mandibles a raised band of straw-white ; irides olive; orbits

 
 

dark grey; bare skin beneath the feathers of the lower part of the sides of the neck and

    
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

on the upper part of the flanks beneath the wing, deep red; legs and feet light green,
their under surface tinged with olive.

‘Total length, 19 inches; dell, 5; wmg,6; tail, 7+; tarsi, 1%.

tamphastos Aracari, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 151.—Ib. Gmel. Edit., tom. i. p. 354.— Lath.
Ind. Orn., vol. i. poe
Tucana Brasiliensis viridis, Briss. Orn., tom. iv. p. 426. tab. 33. fig. 2.
Aracar?, Marcer. Bras., p- 217.—Ray, Orn., p. 44.—Will. Orn., p. 140. tab. 22.
Grigr?, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois., tom. vii. ps 126:
Toucan verd du Breésil, Buff. Pl. Enl., 166.
L Aragart a ceinture rouge, Le Vaill. Ois. de Parad., tom. ii. p. 29. pl. 10.
Nat. Misc., pl. 198.—Shaw, Gen. Zool.,
vol. viii. p. 371. pl. 49.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 290.

 

 

Aragart Toucan, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. i. p. 332.

Pteroglossus Aracar?, lll. Prod. Syst. Mamm. et Av., p. 202—Temm. Man. d’Orn., 2nde
Edit. tom. i. p. lxxv.—Wagl. Syst. Av., Pteroglossus, sp. 2.—Gould, Mon. of Ramph.,
pl. 12.—Ib. Sturm’s Edit., pl. —Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403,

Pteroglossus, sp. 1.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 93, Pteroglossus, sp. 1.

 

Tuere can be little doubt that it was the present bird, and not its near ally the P. Wredi, which was known
to Linnzeus and the still earlier authors, for I find it was very correctly described by Marcgrave as long
back as 1649, his description being evidently taken from a Cayenne specimen, with the strongly marked
culmen: his words are, ‘a thick black line upon the top of the bill running the whole length, with a tail six
inches long and blackish green thighs.” It is also the type of Illiger’s genus Pterog/ossus. The countries
of Cayenne, Guiana, Surinam, and Northern Brazil constitute its native habitat, while Bahia, Rio de Janeiro,
and Southern Brazil are inhabited by the P. edi, from which bird it may be at once distinguished by its
larger size, by its strongly toothed bill, by the greater breadth of the culminal black mark, and by its
chestnut thighs.

The sexes offer little difference in colour, but the female may be readily recognized by the browner tint
of her ear-coverts, and her somewhat smaller size.

The figures are of the natural size.