P'TEROGLOSSUS ERYTHROPYGIUS

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SPeciFic CHaracter.

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wings and tail dull brownish green; lower part of the back, rump and upper tail-coverts
rich blood-red ; under surface yellow, stained on the chest with blood-red, and crossed on

the breast by a band of mingled black and blood-red ; thighs chestnut; bill bordered at
the base by a narrow line of dull white ; the remainder of the bill yellowish horn-colour

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with a broad stripe of black along the upper mandible near the cutting edge and a narrow

line in the centre of the culmen ; upper mandible black.

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‘Total length, 18 inches; dzi/, 5 ; wing, 63; taal,

Pteroglossus erythropygius, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part XI. p- 15.—Ib. Zool. of the
Voy. of H.M.S. Sulphur, Birds, p. 45. pl. 28.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds,

vol. 11. p. 404, Pteroglossus, sp. 15.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p- 94, Pteroglossus,

 

Tur great country lying to the northward of the Isthmus of Panama has a fauna which is in a great
measure peculiarly its own; it is true, that generically many of the forms are the same as those of other
tropical portions of America, but the species are unquestionably different. The accompanying Plate
represents one if not two species of Pteroglossus, and there is at least another, belonging to the same genus,
which appears to be exclusively an inhabitant of Central America, by which I would be understood to mean
in awide sense—Mexico. I have said that the accompanying Plate represents either one or two species ;
and it will be seen that some difference occurs in the figures which were taken from two unique
specimens, one in my own collection, the other in the Museum of the United Service Institution. The latter,
which is represented in the foremost figure, formed part of the collection made by R. B. Hinds, Esq.,
Surgeon R.N., the naturalist attached to the Expedition under Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N., of H.M.S.
Sulphur, and was obtained at Realejo, on the shores of the Pacific in Central America: the precise locality
in which the specimen in my own possession was procured is not known with certainty.

Mr. Hinds’s bird differs from mine in being of a much larger size, in having the under mandible of a nearly
uniform straw-white, and the breast much less stained with scarlet. If hereafter it should be found that

the two birds are different species, the term sangueneus might not be an ina
lied to the Preroglossus torquatus of Wagler

ppropriate name for the smaller

bird. Both the specimens or species in question are nearly al

(P. regalis of Lichtenstein, and of the former edition of this work
he neck will at all times distinguish them from that species: the markings of

), but the total absence of the crescentic

brown collar at the nape of t
their bills are also very different.

The specific name of erythropygius was given to this
which hue is also extended over the whole of the upper tail-coverts.

The figures are of the natural size.

bird to indicate the rich scarlet colouring of its rump,

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