PTEROGLOSSUS PLURICINCTUS, Gould. 
Many-banded Ara<pari. 
Specific Character 
Mas.— Pter. rostra ad basin lined elevata Jlava cincto; culmine et basi mandibulce superioris, 
mandibulaque inferiore nigris; mandibidce superioris lateribus aurantiaco-flavis, in flaves- 
centi-albidum versus apicem transeuntihus; gutture gastrceique fasciis duabus latis, nigris; 
gastrceo antice flavo, coccineo maculato, postice et uropygio coccineis. 
Male. —Head, neck and chest black; upper surface, wings and tail dark olive-green; rump 
blood-red ; across the abdomen two broad bands of black, the spaces between which are 
rich yellow blotched with red ; lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts greenish 
yellow largely stained with blood-red immediately behind the second black band, 
especially on the sides ; thighs brown ; along the culmen a broad mark of black united to 
a mark of the same hue, which passes down the base and occupies the lower angle of the 
upper mandible, the sides of which are orange, passing into pale yellow at the tip ; under 
mandible black ; both surrounded at the base by a. raised band of rich orange-yellow ; 
irides brown ; orbits grey ; legs and feet pale green. 
Total length, 20 inches; bill, 4f; wing, 64; tail, 74; tarsi, 14. 
Female. — Differs in having the ear-coverts chestnut-brown. 
Pteroglossuspluricinctus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part III. p. 157-—lb. Mon. ofRamph., 
pi. 15.—lb. Sturnfs Edit., pi. .—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403, 
Pteroglossus , sp. 4•—Bo nap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 9 4, Pteroglossus , sp. 4. 
One among the many beneficial results to ornithological science consequent upon the increased intercourse 
which has of late years taken place between Europeans and the inhabitants of the Upper Amazon and the 
Rio Negro, has been the acquisition of numerous examples of this fine species; all of them, however, appear 
to me to have been prepared by the Indians, and I very much question if, up to this time, any one of our 
travellers have had more than a passing glance of the bird in its native wilds ; it was not procured by 
Mr. Wallace during his sojourn in the Rio Negro, nor was my late friend John Natterer, who resided in 
the Brazils for eighteen years, more fortunate, all his specimens being also procured by the Indians. That he 
saw it alive we know from the following note appended to the account of this species in Sturm’s translation 
of the first edition of this work :— 
“ I have never been so fortunate as to have a recent example of the Pteroglossus pluricinctus in my hands, 
but I have seen five or six together in a tree near Villa de Thomar in the Rio Negro, and readily recognized 
them with the assistance of a glass by their conspicuous bands; that it is found as far north as the Rio 
Padauiri and Castanha Parana on the Orinoco, I know from the circumstance of many skins having been 
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brought to me by the Macunai Indians. Mr. Gould is in error when he states that I had ascertained the 
sexes of the specimens in the Vienna Museum by dissection, skins only having come into my possession.” 
I have never seen examples of this bird among the numerous collections I have examined from the 
Andes, a neatly allied species, the P. poeciloste)nus, appearing to take its place in those parts of the country. 
The figures are a trifle smaller than the natural size. 
