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ave: first and sect srimaries with the tips prolonged j
feather-like ; wigs rather lengthened and concave ; first and second primé ps prolonged into a
eather-like ; . i
aoe » longest ; scansor
w spatulate form ; the sixth and seventh primaries equal, and the longest ; feet Seauaamae
narrow spatute 2 =

is genus are ‘o widely distributed over South and Central America than th
The members of this genus are more widely disti e ie
y = ers Paras ‘ pete ee ees ae 3

he family ; for although it 1s 10 Brazil, and particularly in the forests clothing the

of any other section of t

delta of the Amazon, that the oreater numbers exist, some of the species are found as far south as Para.
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ouay: and one as far north as Mexico. The warmer forests, both on the eastern and western sides of the
ata) © ;

Andes, are equally tenanted by them.

The species are :—

1. Ramphastos Toco. : PL

9, _—_———_ carinatus : j Pi. ib
3, _———— brevicarinatus : : : Pi. 1G
4, ——_——— Tocard ; : : Pl. 1
D. ambiguus : : : Ph. ¥
6. erythrorhynchus : : PIV
7. ————_ Inca. : Pl. Vu
ee _Onviert : ; : Pl. VIII.
9, —_—_——_ citreoleemus : PL DS
10. ————— osculans : , : PE Xe
11. —————  culminatus ; Pl. X#
12. ———_—— Ariel . . Pl. XE
13. ————— vitellinus ; . : Pl. XO8
14, ————— dicolorus é; : Pl. X13

For the Aracaris, Illiger’s genus

PTEROGLOSSUS,

WITH THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS :—

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tilt, am plum, te 1ue cultr t im SI] i 1 | E
atu basi I argir e incrassato 5 ] i i : ‘
, ? | 3 ; 5 maxillé angulo tr ontali optus }
altiore s et In mMaxille basi p SI ce U t e Ss Ss o aC€d we conca
ill S OS1Te ; 1 i
3 ingua m diocris ’ angusta, pel acea ; a 0 b