PTEROGLOSSUS STURMI,

Natt.

Sturm’s Aracari.

Specrerc Cyaracrer.

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Pter. mandibula superiore sordidé viredi-flava ; mandibuld enferiore

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flava ; nucha, pectore, eprgastrio uropygioque coccineis.

Crown of the head deep black ; cheeks and throat chocolate-brown, bordered posteriorly with a
crescentic mark of chestnut-black, below which is a broader crescent of odllar: nape
upper part of the back, the breast and the rump bright blood-red; back, wings ane oa
dark olive-green ; primaries brownish black, narrowly edged with olive-green ; under
surface of the wings dull yellow ; centre of the abdomen yellow; lower part of the
abdomen and under tail-coverts dull greyish yellow; thighs olive-green; upper mandible
dull greenish yellow, passing into bluish green at the base, becoming almost white on the
cutting edge, and having an oblong spot of black at each denticulation ; under mandible
black except at the point, which is dull greenish yellow; raised band on the sides of
the mandibles at the base ochreous yellow ; irides dark brown ; orbits dark bluish erey,

bounded above by a streak of dull carmine-red ; legs and feet dark greyish green.
Total length, 143 inches; bzl/, 3+; wing, 5; tail, 52; tarsi, 1.

Pteroglossus Sturmiz, Natt.in Imp. Mus. of Vienna.—Sturm’s Edit. of Gould’s Mon. of Ramph.,

pl.

 

Tue solitary example of this fine species contained in the Imperial Museum at Vienna is the only one that
has yet been sent to Europe. It was brought down by the late Mr. John Natterer, on the 22nd of January,
1830, out of a small flock flying in the primitive forests at Borba near the mouth of the Rio Madeira. It
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proved to be a fine male in the adult dress, and, after his return to Europe, was named by him Péeroglossus
Sturmi, in honour of one or other of the brothers Sturm of Nuremberg, who have included a figure and
description of it in their translation of the first edition of this work. As I have never seen the bird myself
Ihave been obliged to copy their figure, and it is only fair to them to give their remarks upon its alliance,
and the differences by which it is distinguished. :
“This species differs from the very similar Prerog/ossus bitorquatus in having the under mandible entirely
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black, instead of black with a white base ; in having a dark brown iris instead of orar g ce I
each side near its inner margin; in the orbits being dark blue grey, with a border oF dull ET ee
the feathers of the crown instead of the eye-rings being grey, and the remainder of the orbits beautifully
mingled carmine and vermilion ; and in the pale yellow cre acne ame el
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in the male P. dztorguatus, and which is narrower and of a brighter yellow in the fema at | :
his bird, of which it is true he had only received a single
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lly adult bird, and that in the case of several

scentic mark on the breast, which does not exist

reasons which induced M. Natterer to regard t
specimen, as distinct, was the circumstance of Its a lorfi, Reinwardti, the specific

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other species, as the Pterogloss: maculirostris, Gouldi, Natterert, Langsdorffi, he : I
distinctions reside almost exclusively in the beak.

The figure is of the size of life.

 
  
 
 
  
    
   
 
   
  
   
   
   
  
   
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
   
   
 
 

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