PTEROGLOSSUS ARACARI. 
Cayenne Araqari. 
Specific Character. 
Pter. manclibidd superiore stramined, macula lata culminali nigra ; inferiore nigra; rostro toto 
basi albocincto ; femoribm olivaceis. 
Head, neck and throat deep black ; back, wings, upper tail-coverts and tail rich olive-green ; 
primaries dark brown ; rump blood-red ; under surface greenish yellow, crossed on the 
upper part of the abdomen by a broad band of blood-reel; thighs olive-brown ; upper 
mandible straw-colour, with a broad mark of black along the culmen; under mandible 
black ; at the base of both mandibles a raised band of straw-white; irides olive; orbits 
dark grey; bare skin beneath the feathers of the lower part of the sides of the neck and 
on the upper part of the flanks beneath the vying, deep red ; legs and feet light green, 
their under surface tinged with olive. 
Total length, 19 inches; bill, 5 ; wing, 6 ; tail, 74; tarsi, li. 
Ramphastos Araqari, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 151.—lb. Gruel. Edit., loin. i. p. 354.— Lath. 
Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 138. 
Tucana Brasiliensis viriclis, Briss. Orn., tom. iv. p. 426. tab. 83. fig. 2 . 
Araqari, Marcgr. Bras., p. 217-—Bay, Orn., p. 44.—Will. Orn., p. 140. tab, 22 . 
Grigri, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Qis., tom. vii. p. 126 . 
Toucan verd du Bresil, Buff. PI. Enl., 166 . 
11 Araqari d ceinture rouge, Le Vail I. Ois. de Parad., tom. ii. p. 29- pi. 10 . 
Araqari Toucan, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. i. p. 332.—Nat. Misc., pi. 198 .—Shaw, Gen. Zool., 
vol. viii. p. 371- pi. 49-—Lath. Gen. Llist., vol. ii. p. 290 . 
Pteroglossus Araqari, 111. Prod. Syst. Mamin, et Av., p. 202 .—Temtn. Man. d’Orn., 2 nde 
Edit. tom. i. p. lxxv.—Wagl. Syst. Av., Pteroglossus, sp. 2 .—Gould, Mon. of Ramph., 
pi. 12.—lb. Sturm’s Edit., pi. .—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403, 
Pteroglossus, sp. 1 .—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 93 , Pteroglossus, sp. 1 . 
There can be little doubt that it was the present bird, and not its near ally the P. Wiedi, which was known 
to Linnaeus and the still earlier authors, for I find it was very correctly described by Marcgrave as long 
back as 1649, his description being evidently taken from a Cayenne specimen, with the strongly marked 
culmen: his words are, “ a thick hlack line upon the top of the bill running the whole length, with a tail six 
inches long and blackish green thighs.” It is also the type of Illiger’s genus Pteroglossus. The countries 
of Cayenne, Guiana, Surinam, and Northern Brazil constitute its native habitat, while Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, 
and Southern Brazil are inhabited by the P. Wiedi , from which bird it may be at once distinguished by its 
larger size, by its strongly toothed bill, by the greater breadth of the culminal black mark, and by its 
chestnut thighs. 
The sexes offer little difference in colour, but the female may be readily recognized by the browner tint 
of her ear-coverts, and her somewhat smaller size. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
