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patch of white seated within the black, beneath the eye ; under sur- 

 face white, with a large arrow-shaped patch of glossy black on the 

 breast ; feathers on the sides of the abdomen with a broad stripe of 

 black down the centre ; lateral tail-feathers jet-black, largely tipped 

 with pure white; under tail- coverts black for four-fifths of their 

 length on the outer web, their inner webs and tips white ; eyes 

 brown ; tarsi olive ; toes black. 



Total length, 1\ inches ; bill, J ; wing, 3| ; tail, Z\ ; tarsi, 1 \. 



Hab. South Australia. Shot by Capt. Sturt at the Depot, lat. 

 29° 40', June 9, 1845. 



This fine new species, discovered by the enterprising traveller Sturt, 

 is of peculiar interest, as being one of the few inhabitants of the 

 sterile and inhospitable interior of Australia, and as forming the 

 third species of the genus known to belong to that portion of the 

 globe ; it is considerably smaller than either of its congeners, and 

 also differs from them in the beautiful cinnamon colouring of the 

 upper surface. It now forms part of the national collection at the 

 British Museum. 



Ramphastos Inca. Fcem. Ramph. nigra; rostro nigro, in lateribus 

 sanguineo obnubilato ; culmine mandibulce superioris ad apicem, et 

 lata fascid basalt fiavis, hac postice lined nigrd, antice lined coc- 

 cined cinctd; guld et pectore albisjlavitinctis, hoc torque sanguineo 

 infra succincto ; tectricibus caudce inferioribus aurantiacis. 



Bill black, clouded on the sides with blood-red, with the culmen 

 and point of the lower mandible yellow, and with a broad basal belt 

 of the same colour, bounded posteriorly with a narrow line of black, 

 and anteriorly with a narrow line of scarlet ; the yellow clouded with 

 olive on the lower mandible ; naked skin round the eye purple, passing 

 into yellow on its outer margin ; irides brown ; legs and feet bluish 

 lead-colour ; general plumage black ; throat and chest white, tinged 

 with yellow, and bounded below by a band of blood-red ; upper tail- 

 coverts rich orange ; under tail-coverts blood- red. 



Total length, 20 inches ; bill, 5^ ; wing, 9£ ; tail, 7 ; tarsi, 2£. 



Hab. Bolivia: in the elevated and dense forests at Chimor6e, in 

 the country of the Yuracaras Indians. Brought to this country by 

 Mr. Bridges, and now in the collection of the Earl of Derby. 



Remark. — Nearly allied to Ramphastos erythrorhynchus . 



The above is the description of a female. 



Pteroglossus cucullatus. Pter. vertice et occipite aterrimis ; 

 latd macula semilunari ad nucham griseo-cceruled ; dorso, humeris, 

 apicibusque tectricum alarum majorum aureo-oleagineis , uropygio 

 autem et tectricibus caudce superioribus virido-flavis infectis ; tectri- 

 cibus alarum superioribus, pogoniis externis primariarum, et secon- 

 dariis saturate viridibus ; pogoniis internis nigris ; genis guldque 

 ferrugineis, harum colore cum inferioris corporis cceruleo-griseo 

 gradatim confuso ; tectricibus caudce inferioribus nitide coccineis ; 

 rostro flavo-viridi obnubilato, nisi tertid parte apicali, et maculd 

 oblongd utrinque ad basin inferioris mandibulce, nigris. 



Crown of the head and occiput deep shining black ; at the back 



