PTEROGLOSSUS BAILLONI, Wagkr. 
SafFron-coloured Aracari. 
Specific Character. 
Pier, rostro mediocri, arcuato] lutescenti, basin versus siib-oUvaceo: froute, gents, gida, corpore- 
que subtus prceter femora croceis; corpora supra, alts, caiidd,femoribusque olivaceo-viridi- 
■ bus aureo parum tinctis ; uropygio coccineo ; pedibus tarsisque plumbeis. 
Beak moderate, arched, of a greenish yellow, approaching to olive at the base; the front of the 
head, the cheeks, the throat, and the whole of the under surface, with the exception of the 
thighs, rich saftron yellow; the upper parts of the body, wings, tail and thighs, olive green 
slightly shaded with golden yellow; rump scarlet; feet and legs lead colour. 
Total length, including the bill, from 14 to 16 inches; bill, to 3r. 
Pteroglossus Bailloni. Wagler, Systema Avium. 
P Aragari Baillon. Lc Vaill., Ois. de Farad., tom. 2. p. 44. t. 18. 
Ramphastos Bailloni. Vieill., Nouv. Diet, d’ Hist. Nat., p. 283. 
Pteroglossus croccus. Jard. & Selby, III. of Ornith., vol. 1. pi. 6. 
This i-ichly coloured species was so little known in our collections a few years since, that Sir W. Jardine and 
Mr. Selby were induced to figure it in their “ Illustrations of Ornithology ” as a bird new to science, under 
the name of Pteroglossus croceus. The circumstance, however, of its having been previously described and 
figured in other works, prevents my adopting the very appropriate name given to it by those gentlemen. 
The numerous acquisitions we have derived from the Brazils during the last few years have made us more 
familiar with this bird; and although I am unable to give any particulars as to its habits and manners 
in a state of nature, I can affirm with certainty that, unlike many of the Pteroglossi, the sexes do not 
offer that difference in the colour of the plumage so characteristic of many species of this genus; in fact no 
outward difference except iii size is obseiwable, the female being a trifle less than the male in all her propor¬ 
tions. 
In point of beauty and elegance of form, the Saffron-eoloured Arapari is somewhat conspicuous, particularly 
in the sweeping breadth of rich golden yellow which pervades the breast and all the under parts. 
Its habitat ajipears to be somewhat local, all the examples I have seen being from the Brazils. 
