PTEROGLOSSUS AZAR A.

Azara’s Aracari.

SPECIFIC CHARAcTER.

Pter. rostro stramineo-flavo ; mandibule superiors lateribus macula longitudinali rufa.

Male.—Crown of the head black ; back of the neck dark chestnut-red ; upper surface very dark

reen; primaries black, edged with very dark green ;

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rump deep blood-red ; cheeks and

throat blackish chestnut, bounded below by a narrow line of deep black; across the
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1€ upper part of the abdomen a broad

band of black tinged with green ; lower part of the ab

breast a broad crescentic mark of blood-red Onl tt

domen and under tail-coverts yellow,

stained with blood-red next the black band ; thighs olive ; bill delicate straw-yellow, with

a broad streak of red along the sides of the upper mandible, bounded below by an inter-
rupted narrow line of orange ; irides dark carmine-red ; orbits immediately round the eye
dark greenish grey, inclining to indigo-blue, and with a patch of red at the anterior angle
above, and another in the posterior angle behind the eye; legs green.

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Total length, 142 inches; Az//, 32; wing, 5; tail, 52; tarsi, 1.

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.

LT’ Aracari Azara, Levaill. Hist. Nat. des Ois. de Parad., Supp., p. 40. t. A.

Ramphastos Azara, Vieill. 2nde Edit. du Nouy. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. xxxiv. p. 283.—Ib.
Ency. Méth. Orn., part ii. p. 1431.

Pteroglossus Azare, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., tom. ii. pl. et p. (not numbered)—Wagl. Syst. Av.,
Pteroglossus, sp. 3.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403, Péero-
glossus, sp. 6.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., Pteroglossus, sp. 6.—Sturm’s Edit. of

Gould’s Mon. of Ramph., pl.

 

Ir gives me great pleasure to figure this, the true P. Azare of Levaillant, from very recently lied speci-
mens sent to this country by Mr. Wallace from the Rio Negro on the Amazon; by means of which I am
enabled to give a representation of the colouring of the soft parts as they SOMES in life : it wall be seen that
they give a very beautiful appearance to the bird, and consequently add materially to os interest. Since
the publication of the first edition of this work, numerous examples have aoe aa i thie country, ae
cipally, however, by Sir Robert Schomburgk, who collected them during his ee ae the interior o
British Guiana. Little difference in size exists between this species and PP. facrosins: a is, However the
smaller of the two ; but, with the exception of the bill, the two buds ie precisely alike in their ee
it is certainly one of the most elegant species of the genus, and it is much to\be regreteds uaa eae
is known of the habits and economy of so beautiful a bird.

The figures represent the two sexes of the size of life.

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