PTEROGLOS SUS HUMBOLDTI I , Wagler.
Humboldt’s Ara9ari.
S p e c i f ic C h a r a c t e r .
Pter. rostro majare; mandibuld superiore sordide fiavescenti-aurantiacá, culmine, lined basali
cingente, mactdaque ad singulam serraturam nigris ; mandíbula inferiore nigra, ad basin
pallidé flaoescenti-aurantiaco cinctd: capite, eolio, gula, guttureque nigris; dorso sordide
oliváceo; remigibis nigrescenti-bnmneis; gastrceo pallidb stramineo v.iridiscente tinelo;
uropygii macula coccínea ; orbitce tarsique plumbei.
Bill large in proportion to the body; a band of black occupies the culmen from the base to the
tip I the remainder of the upper mandible of a dull yellowish orange, with the exception
of an indefinite mark of black which springs from each serrature, and a fine line of the
same colour surrounding it near the base; lower mandible black, with the exception of
the base, which is surrounded with pale yellowish orange; the head, back of the neck,
throat, and chest black; all the upper surface, except a spot of scarlet on the rump, of a
dull olive I primaries blackish brow n ; under surface pale straw yellow with a slight tinge
of green ; thighs chestnut; naked space round the eyes and tarsi lead colour.
Total length, about 16 to 17 inches; bill, 4 ; wing, 5i ; tail, 6 f ; tarsi, If.
Pteroglossus Humboldtii, Wagler, Syst. Avium.
---------------------------------- Gould, Proceedings of Zool. Soc., Part III.
A f in e and, as far as I am aware, an unique example of this species of Pteroglossus forms part of the Cabinet
of Natural History of Munich, so reuowned from the circumstance of its containing the collections formed in
the Brazils by those scientific travellers Drs. Spix and Martius. This fine collection, which is particularly
rich in birds pertaining to the present family, was in the most liberal manner thrown open for my investigation,
when I hailed with pleasure the appearance of the fine species here figured, exhibiting as it does those
peculiar markings of the bill which had heretofore been confined to one known species only, the Pteroglossus
inscriptus. Its superiority in size and its black under mandible will at all times serve as a distinctive mark
between the two species. No information relative to its history and manners appears to have been ascertained,
further than that it was a male, and received from the Brazils, in all probability from near the Amazon.