AULACORHAMPHUs ALBIVITT A.

White-banded Grooye-bill.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Aul. rostro nigro, ad basin Sascia alba circumdato ; culmine toto ad apice

2s ¢n viridiscentem transeuntibus ;
fasciam albam maculé sanguinea notata ;

m usque laterumque
mandibule superioris partes, citre

mandibula inferiore ante
gula allida.

All the upper surface and wings dark tinged with brown;

on the crown and the nape of the
neck grass-green ; primaries brownish black, margined externally at the base with dark
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rass-green ; tail d
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eep grass-green, passing into blue towards the

extremity, and tipped
with rich chestnut; throat w!

lite in some, grey or bluish white in others ; under surface
pale grass-green, very slightly washed with blue on the breast

, and with yellow on the

flanks ; around the orbits and down the sides of the neck bounding the white of the grey
throat a line of blue; under tail-coverts rich deep chestnut; bill black, with the exception
of the culmen and upper half of the upper mandible, which are greenish yellow, passing

into purer yellow at the tip and the lower angle of the under mandible which is chestnut;

on the sides of both mandibles at the base a broad band of straw-white ; orbits red; feet
greenish lead-colour.

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Male —Total length, 13+ inches; d7//, 3; wing, 4; tarl, 51; tarsi,

Pteroglossus albivitta, Boiss. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 70.—Sturm’s Edit. of Gould’s Mon. of
Rampb. text.
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albwittatus, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. 31.
_ PS fied 4c 3a 2 eee
microrhynchus, Sturm’s Edit. of Gould’s Mon. of Ramph.

} Te y De ‘amphus, sp. 3.
Aulacoramphus albivitta, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 96, Aulacoramphus, s}

 

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; I re iscovere It is a native of the Colum
Tus is one of the least of the family of Ramphastide yet discovered. . € ieee
ions sent from thence to this country. s

j | he collections sent from ne
Andes, and Specimens occur 1n most of t - Lavine a Broad Eaton ee
f s . see aving a broad be

; elo > ] hic is nearly allied, in he g
Pteroglossus prasinus of Lichtenstein, to which it arly
sides of the base of the mandibles. ane ee ie cocci nat eine

1 ifte 9ecurs I size of the specimens,
Considerable difference occurs in the size

the males, and the smaller the females.

The figures are of the natural size.

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