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SELENIDERA GOULDLI.

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Gould’s Toucanet.

SPECIFIC CHaracter.

Mas.—Se/. mandibula superiore nieraé, apicem ver oy F
Mas ( Superiore negra, apicem versus hivide corned, apice alba, fascidque ancousté
A ee. : » Ja e angusta
alba ad basin; mandihuld enferrore alba fascia d 2

, negra, apiceque livide corneo, pedibus
plumbers.

Male.— Crown, nape, throat and chest deep shining black: ear-coverts dee]

— ae D orange, posterior to
which is a second tuft of yellow, the two crossing obliquely ; at the hape a crescent of pal
g Vee » nape a cresce yale

yellow; back, wings and upper tail-coverts rich olive-ereen :
live-green ;

alee primaries dark brown, exter-
nally margined with olive ; tail dark olive-green, inclining to brown: six middie
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tipped with chestnut; abdomen yellowish green: flanks crane °
a | me yellowish green; flanks orange; thighs rufous; under
tail-coverts crimson ; upper mandible black aded alone = ;
2 son ; upper mandible black, bounded along the serratures and posteriorly
with white, and bordered next the face with a verv narrow |; ee :
i , and bordered next the face with a very narrow line of greenish yellow ; under
mandible ye ris Ate. erosse Se pe ;
andible yellowish white, crossed near the apex with a band of black, and bordered
at the base with greenish yellow ; tps of both mandibles very delicate green ; orbits pea-
green ; irides pea-green, with a circle of pale yellow next the pupil; feet green.

Total length, 13 inches; dz//, 2:; wmg, 5; tail, 5; tarsi, 12.

Female—Head, neck, throat and breast reddish brown, inclining to chestnut on the former :
ear-coverts reddish olive ; in all other points the plumage is the same as in the male: the
bill is also very similar, but not so brightly coloured, and moreover has the greenish

yellow mark at the base of the under mandible dilated into a triangular form.

Pteroglossus Gouldii, Natt. in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. p. 44.—Sturm’s Edit. of Gould’s
Mon. of Ramph., pl. ©.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 404, Pteroglossus,
sp. 19.

Pteroglossus (Selenidera) Gouldii, Gould, Icon. Av., pl.

Selentdera Gouldi, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 95, Selenedera, sp. 1.

 

Turs bird was figured for the first time in my “ Icones Avium,” from specimens presented to the Zoological

Society of London by the late M. John Natterer of Vienna, who had procured them on the banks of the

River Madeira in Brazil, and who at the Meeting of the Society, held on the 11th of April, 1837, had been

pleased to name the species after myself. Since that period a great number of examples have come under
my notice from the banks of the River Amazon,
the bird: all these specimens correspond in every respe
tendency to partake of the characters of §. maculirostris, to whic
ich it di i i ack ar man
which it differs in the single large patch of black on the upper mé i ee
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colouring of the sides of the body, and in a slight diversity in the colouring of the o e
Although I have been so fortunate as to see many examples,

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and may be considered one of the rarest of the genu =
i atural size.

The Plate represents two males and a female of the natura

which may be considered one of the natural localities of
ct aah M. Natterer’s ; none of them exhibiting a
h the species is very nearly allied, but trom
ible, in the more intense orange

it is a species seldom found in collections,

  
 
  
  
   
     
  
   
    
  
     
 
   
 
  
  
   
  
  
 
   
  
  
  
   
    
  
 

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