PTEROGLOSSUS MACULATUS. 



Spotted-billed Araqari. 



PLATE XXVI. 



P. rostro maculata, capite, gula pectoreque flavis ; auriculis croceis ; dorso, se- 

 condares caudaque viridibus, crisso rubro. 



L'Aracari a bee tachete ; Ramphastos maculatus, Vieill. Gal. des Oiseaux, vol. ii, (Plate 

 not numbered). 



X he length of this species, including the bill, is about twelve inches ; that 

 of the bill is from two inches and a quarter to two and three quarters : it 

 is broad and strong at the base, and appears to be of a firmer texture than 

 in the generality of the species : the colour is pale bluish-grey, inclining to 

 gamboge-yellow at the tip and edges of the mandibles, and is irregularly 

 crossed and spotted with large black patches. In the male, the head, back 

 and sides of the neck, throat and breast are deep black : the feathers that 

 spring immediately beneath the rictus, and those covering the ears, are 

 saffron-yellow, and run to a point as they mingle with the feathers on the 

 sides of the neck : the upper parts are dusky sap-green, and are divided 

 from the black of the head and neck by a narrow band of primrose-yellow : 

 on the rump there is also a few feathers of the same colour : the quills are 

 blackish-brown : the tail is dusky sap-green, and all the feathers, except 

 the two exterior on each side, are tipped with orange coloured brown : 

 the hypochondrias are saffron-yellow, blended with primrose-yellow on the 

 centre of the vent, and on the lower part of it inclining to oil-green : the 

 under tail-coverts are dark scarlet-red : the feet and legs are blackish- 

 blue. 



Those parts of the plumage which are black in the male, are in the fe- 

 male deep orange coloured brown, paler beneath : the auricular feathers 

 are deep oil-green, tipped with primrose-yellow. 



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