AULACORAMPHUS CAERULEICINCTUS

Blue-banded Groove-bill.

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SPECIFIC CHARACTER

Aul. rostro plumbeo, apice tomirsque aye
L pice tomisque pallide corneis ; wropy gio fea
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parte antica lineolaque supra oculos albidis

Crown of the head, back, wings and tail dark grass-green :
Rich BS oo cred nee grass-g en ; across the upper tail-coverts a broad
| ; four centre tail-feathers largely tipped with chestnut-]
stripe over the eye, sides of Se. oe Se stnut-Dbrown ;
, I ye, sides of the face and throat white washed posteriorly with blue i
coverts, ches i 4 . in £ ; ) Checal
s, chest and all the under surface yellowish green deepening toe nng
— . 5 aE g o rufous on the
under tail-coverts; across the lower part of
: yverts ; across the lower part of the chest a band of light blue ; primaries blac!
5 J ; aries black,
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the tip, which, as well : eee ae > ;
p, which, as well as the serrations of both mandibles, are whitish horn-colour ; feet
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Total | o 5+ inches: : Q3 . oe : =
ength, 15+ inches; Sell, 3i; wing, 5%; tail, 64; tarsi, 13.

Pteroglossus cceruleici

B s cerulercinctus Or *, dans | Amér ar, Oils i

2 * cinctus, D’Orb. Voy. dans lAmér. Meér. Ois., tab. 66. fig. 2.—Gray and
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Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. 30.

Lichtensteinii, Sturm’s Edit. of Gould’s Mon. of Ramph.

Aulacoramphus ceruleicinctus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 96, Aulacoramphus, sp. 8.

 

cies is an inhabitant of the Cinchona woods, clothing
1e name of Chukimbi.
ld and valued

Lixe Aulacoramphus atrogularis, this well-marked spe
he Peruvian Andes, where it is known to the Indians by tl
e Messrs. Sturm Preroglossus Lichtensteinii, in honour of my 0
f the Royal Museum in Berlin, and it would bave given me very great
ation for so fine a bird; but as I find that it had
s me to give this name the

the eastern slopes of t

This species was named by th
friend Dr. Lichtenstein, the Director o
pleasure to have retained this justly complimentary appell
been previously called ceruleicinctus by M. D’Orbigny, the law of priority oblige

preference.
S

le by the blue-grey colouring of its bill, by it

rendered remarkab
, but specimens

The Aulacoramphus ca@ruleicinctus 18
the chest.

white throat, and by the cerulean blue band crossing
lin, in the Collection at the Jarc

It is a very rare species
are contained in the Royal Museum at Ber lin des Plantes at Paris, and in
my own.

The figures are of the natural size.

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