PTEROGLOSSUS BAILLONI, Wagter.

Saffron-coloured Aracari.

Speciric CHARACTER.

Pter. rostro medtocri, arcuato; lutescenti, basin versus sub-olivaceo : Sronte, genis, gula, corpore-
A ;
que subtus preter femora croceis ; corpore supra, alts, cauda, Semoribusque olivaceo-viridi-

bus aureo parti tinctis ; uropygio coccineo ; pedibus tarsisque plumbeis.

Beak moderate, arched, of a greenish yellow, approaching to olive at the base; the front of the
head, the cheeks, the throat, and the whole of the under surface, with the exception of the
thighs, rich saffron yellow; the upper parts of the body, wings, tail and thighs, olive green
slightly shaded with golden yellow; rump scarlet; feet and legs lead colour.

Total length, including the bill, from 14 to 16 inches; S/d, 2+ to 3¢.

Preroglossus Bailloni. Wagler, Systema Avium.

IL Aracari Baillion. Le Vaill., Ois. de Parad., tom. 2. p. 44. t. 18.
Ramphastos Baillont. Vieill., Nouv. Dict. d@ Hist. Nat., p- 283.
Pteroglossus croccus. Jard. & Selby, Ill. of Ornith., vol. 1. pl. 6.

 

Tuts richly coloured species was so little known in our collections a few years since, that Sir W. Jardine and
Mr. Selby were induced to figure it in their “Illustrations of Ornithology” as a bird new to science, under
the name of Preroglossus croceus. The circumstance, however, of its having been previously described and
figured in other works, prevents my adopting the very appropriate name given to it by those gentlemen.

The numerous acquisitions we have derived from the Brazils during the last few years have made us more
familiar with this bird; and although I am unable to give any particulars as to its habits and manners
in a state of nature, I can affirm with certainty that, unlike many of the Preroglossi, the sexes do not
offer that difference in the colour of the plumage so characteristic of many species of this genus; in fact no
outward difference except in size is observable, the female being a trifle less than the male in all her propor-
tions.

In point of beauty and elegance of form, the Saffron-coloured Aracari is somewhat conspicuous, particularly
in the sweeping breadth of rich golden yellow which pervades the breast and all the under parts.
Its habitat appears to be somewhat local, all the examples I have seen being from the Brazils.

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