BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 355 



Pteroglossus wagleri Sturm, ed. Gould's Mon. Ramphast., 1841, pi. 16 (heft 2, 



pi. 6). 

 Aulamramplms wagleri Gould, Mon. Ramphast., ed. 2, 1854, pi. 48 and text. 

 Aulacorhamphus wagleri Solateb, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1859, 388 (Sacatepec, 



Oaxaca); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 157 (Sacatepec; Amula, Guerrero). — 



Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 120. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 560. 

 : [Aulacorhamphus] wagleri Sclateh and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 109. 

 A[ulacorhynchus\ wagleri Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., 1862, 331. 



AULACORHYNCHUS PRASINUS PRASINUS (Gould). 



EMEKAID TOUCANET. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck plain greenish olive 

 or olive-green (sometimes inclining to brownish olive-green), passing 

 into nearly pure grass green on back, scapulars, wings, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and proximal portion of tail, the green into greenish 

 blue or bluish green on terminal portion of inner secondaries (especially 

 their inner webs and on distal portion of rectrices, the latter broadly 

 tipped with chestnut or deep cinnamon-rufous; outer webs of pri- 

 maries dark dull bluish distally; superciliary region sometimes tinged 

 with blue or bluish green; suborbital region, anterior portion of malar 

 region, chin, and upper and middle portions of throat dull white; 

 auricular region and sides of neck yellowish green; lower throat, 

 foreneck, and under parts of body plain light green, usually more or 

 less tinged with bluish green anteriorly and medially, the s'des more 

 or less strongly washed with yellowish green; under tail-coverts 

 chestnut or deep cinnamon-rufous; under wing-coverts pale duU 

 greenish yeUow; inner webs of remiges (except distally) passing into 

 pale duU yellowish on edges; mandible black, usually paler and more 

 brownish at tip, the base and more or less of the lower edge of rami 

 with an embossed, often longitudinally sulcate, margin of dull yellow 

 or yellowish white; maxilla mostly greenish yellow, with an arched 

 tomial stripe of black (widest anteriorly) and with a supero-basal 

 area of black covering basal portion of culmen and the subnasal 

 region, on the former passing anteriorly into or succeeded by a more 

 or less extensive area of chestnut; iris brown?; bare orbital space 

 dusky brownish (in dried skins); legs and feet dusky olive (olive- 

 grayish or grayish olive-green in life?). 



Fown^.— Similar in coloration to adults but duller, especially the 

 green of under parts, and bill without sharply defined "pattern," the 

 maxilla yellowish terminally (dusky toward tomia), brownish 

 basally. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 348-392 (365); wing, 123-138 (133); 

 tail, 114.5-130.5 (121); culmen, 66-81.5 (74); tarsus, 32.5-36.5 (31.1); 

 outer anterior toe, 24-29.5 (26.2). '^ 



<^ Twelve specimens, 



