PTEROGLOSSUS FLAVIROSTRIS,
Yellow-billed Aracari.

Fras.

SPectric Caaracter.

Pter. rostro stramineo-flavo ; tomic mandibule sunerjor; ee
bulee -oinats oe par;
a” De ; : U supervoris emarginationibus negris ; mandibula
enferzore aurantio tincta.

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Male.—Crown of the head black ; back of the neck between the shoulders dark chestnut-red ;
upper surface, wings and tail very dark green ;

primaries black, edged with very dark
green; rump deep blood-red ; cheeks and tl

iroat: blackish chestnut, bounded below by a
across the breast a broad crescentic mark of b
upper part of the abdomen a broad band of bl

abdomen and under tail-coverts yellow, st

narrow line of deep black ; lood-red; on the
ack, tinged with green; lower part of the
ained with blood-red next the black band, particu-
larly on the sides ; thighs olive ; bill delicate straw-yellow, with a narrow streak of black
along the serrations of the upper mandible, and a broad streak of orange-yellow along the
cutting edge of the lower mandible; irides dark carmine-red ; orbits immediately round
the eye dark greenish grey, inclining to indigo-blue, and with a patch of red in the anterior
angle above, and another in the posterior angle behind the eye ; legs green.

Total length, 15+ inches; d:U/, 32; wing, 5+; tail, 64; tarsi, 14.
Female.—Similar in colour, but with the chestnut hue of the throat paler, and the black mark

bounding it below more conspicuous than in the male.
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Pteroglossus Azare, Gould’s Mon. of Ramph., pl. 17.
flavirostris, Fras. in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VIII. p. 60.—Sturm’s Edit. of
Gould’s Mon. of Ramph., p. .—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403,

Pteroglossus, sp. 7—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p- 94, Pteroglossus, sp. 7.

 

From the time I published my first drawing of this species, now nearly twenty years ago; until very lately, I
have been greatly perplexed respecting the specimen in the Museum of the ee des Plantes at a from
which it was taken, inasmuch as none of the numerous examples sent to this country agreed es and it
was only upon a more careful examination of it on a late visit, that I discovered that the Lee
been partly manufactured, the second broad scarlet band across the abdomen Lane been substitutec for
the few pans of that colour which occur in the genuine specimens :—this PREG of malversating species
cannot be too forcibly deprecated, tending as it does to produce ene confusion. pe

We learn from Sturm’s Edition of this work, that the indefatigable Mr. Jon Natterer met with this
species near Marabitana, on the 14th of May 1831, at which time it wes moulting; ae pes on ee a
of June, in the woods on the banks of the River Xie, a tributary of the oe Rio ae a oa
Professor Poeppig also met with it on the Amazonas, in the province of Maynas in Peru ; and I have very fine
specimens from New Grenada. . oe

The Pteroglossus flavirostris may be at once distinguished from P. Azare S i Wed ea
; ible, or in other words, by being without any trace of the red streak along

colouring of its upper mand : : i eee
eae OF WS Upper mé having a streak of orange along the

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portion of the bill which is so conspicuous in P. dzare 5 antl by tines ho
5 : - the bill in L. Azare is entirely free from markings of any ; j
lower mandible, which part of the bill in £. 42 j
other respect the two species are alike in colour. .
The figures represent the two sexes of the natural size.

  
 
 
 
   
   
     
    
    
   
  
   
    
 
 
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 

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