PTEROGLOSSUS inscriptus, 

 Lettered Aracari, 



Generic Character. — See PI. 44. 



Specific Character. 



P.fusco-viridis, capite guluque nigris (femince castaneis ;) uropj/gio ru- 

 bra ; abdomine Jiavo ; rostri Juhi culmine, basi et apice nigris ; 

 marginibus dentatis, lineis nigris inscriptis. 



Obscure green ; head and throat black, (in the female chesnut ;) 

 rump crimson ; body yellow ; bill fulvous, the top, base, and 

 tip, black; the margins dentated, and marked with black lines 

 resembling characters. 



1 WAS put in possession of this rare and unknown bird, by 

 the dispersion of the most magnificent assemblage of natural 

 productions that ever marked the zeal of an individual, or or- 

 namented the capital of this kingdom. Mr. Bullock's Mu- 

 seum is now scattered ; yet the objects it comprised were 

 deemed worthy of enriching the public repositories of every 

 nation in Europe ; who sent their learned men to purchase 

 with avidity, and share in the spoils of a Museum, the dis- 

 persion of which will be long regretted by the learned, the 

 inquiring, and ** the many." 



Total length, twelve inches and a half; bill, from the angle 

 of the mouth to the tip, two inches three tenths long, and 

 eight tenths across the base ; the colour (which appears little 

 changed from that in the live state) is deep straw, or buff 

 yellow ; the top of the upper mandible and tips of both are 

 black ; parallel with the marginal base of the upper, is a 

 black line, which is very broad on that of the lower; the 

 edges of both are serrated, and marked by short black lines, 

 somewhat resembling oriental characters ; at the base of the 

 bill there is an elevated rim of deeper yellow ; the ears, chin, 

 and throat are deep chesnut, margined in front with a narrow 

 line of black, (which parts in the male are entirely black ;) 

 the crown of the head and neck above also black, changing 

 to a dark bluish green on the wings, back, and tail ; the rump 

 crimson, and the greater quills blackish ; from the breast to 

 the vent straw-coloured yellow, with a greenish cast; the 

 thighs and flanks olive; tail wedged, near five inches long; 

 the orbits appear to have been black, and the feet green. 



Mr. Bullock informed me he had the two sexes of this bird 

 sent him from the interior of Guyana. 



PI. 90. 



