i 



3. PTEROGLOSSUS. l."57 



As regards its colour this Toucan stands quite alone. Gould 

 placed it in the present genus, where I think it may remain, unless 

 anollier generic name is formed for it. 



a. Ad. st. S.E. Brazil. Lord .Stuart de Kothesay 



[P.]. 

 //. Ad. sk. Novo Friboiu-go, llio, Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Brazil {I'ouds). 



c. (S ad. sk. Pelotas, llio Grande do Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sul, Brazil (Jut/iicr). 



d. Ad. sk. S.E. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 

 (■-(J. Ad. sk. S.E. Brazil. Gould Coll. 



/(. Ad. sk. fcj.E. Brazil. yalvin-Godman Coll. 



i. Skeleton. Eyton Coll. 



3. PTEROGLOSSUS. 



Type. 

 Bteroglossus, 111. I'rodr. ■Si/--<t. Main in. ct Av. p. 202 



(lyil) P. aracari. 



Aracari, Less. 31im. d'Oru. ii. p. 131 (1828) P. azara. 



Pyroslerna, Bp. Cunsj). Vol. Zyg. p. 4 (1854) P. hitorquatus. 



Beauharnasius, Up. ibid. p. beauharnaisi. 



(xrammarliyuchus, Gould, Mon. Mamph. od. 2, introd. 



p. 2G (iso4) P. inscriptus. 



Fkroijlossas is the most brilliant and diversitied genus of the 

 family, with a plumage of green, scarlet, and yellow, often arranged 

 in patches of marked contrast, llefusing to acknowledge several 

 subdivisions of recent authors to be of generic value, I place 18 

 species within the limits of this genus, and include among them the 

 magniticent Curl-crested Aracari, one of the finest bu'ds of the 

 whole iN eotropical Urnis. 



Fteroylossiis ranges as far north as lihamphastos, but not perhaps 

 quite so far south, as no species has yet been detected in Argentina, 

 though F. vjicdl extends into the Brazilian province of Rio Grande 

 do tSul. The headquarters of PterocjJossus is certainly the great 

 forest of Amazonia, a\ here numerous species are met with. 



In I'teroglossus the sexes are mostly alike or nearly so, but in 

 some species the males are considerably more intense in colour, and 

 thus distinguishable by external characters. 



Key to the ISpecies. 



A. Head-feathers not scaly. 

 (I. Breast banded ; sexes ahke. 

 a. liill larger (l'tero(/lo.'<sus). 



a". Without 11 black pectoral spot. 

 a". Nape black. 



a*. \\ itb one band beneath. 



«■'. Stripu on culuieu broad . . 1. anicari, p. 136. 

 //■'. Stripe uu eulmen uuirow : 



\ smaller 2. uiedi, p. 13"J. 



I larger 3. fonnosu^, p. 130. 



