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feather-like ¡ mug* ru fh e r lengthened an d concave ; firs t an d second primaries w ith th e tip s prolonged into a
narrow sp s tu la te form ; th e s ix th an d seventh primaries equal, and th e lo n g e s t; /eel scansojnal.
The members of this genus are more widely distributed over South and Central America than those
of any other section of the family; for although it is in Brazil, and particularly in the forests clothing the
delta of the Amazon, that the greater numbers exist, some of the species are found as far south as Paraguay
; and one as far north as Mexico. The warmer forests, both on the eastern and western sides of the
Andes, aré equally tenanted by them.
The species are :—
1. Ramphastos T o c o ................................................................ .......... PI* I*
2. --------------- c a n n a t u s .............................................................111 1 PI II
3. --------------- brevicarinatus ........................................ PI .-III.
4. — T o c a r d ............................................................................IV'
5. --------------- a m b i g u u s ............................................................ Pl. V.
6. --------------- e ry th ro rh y n c h u s ...................................................Pl. VI.
7. _________ Inca • P1VIL
8. ------- ------ - C u v i e r i .............................................................Ml VI11'
9. --------------- citreolæmus - • • • • * PI * IX
10. -------------- osculans . . * • • • • PI X
1 1 . --------------- culminatus - * • • • *
12 . ---------------Arai e•l i . . * • • • • PI* XII.
1 3 . ------------- vIite m, 1nucs . . * • • • • * PI- XIII.
, *, . PI. XIV. 1 4 . --------------- d i c o l o r u s ........................................ ..........
For the Arácaris, Illiger’s genus
P T E R O G L O S SU S ,
WITH THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS
A o . f r » , amplum, tenue, cultra tum, basi m argine incra ssato ; maxillte angulo frontaU o b tu s o ; f » i a s e r r a t e ; «are*
a ltio re s e t inm ax illte b a s i p o s it® ; lingua mediocris, an g u sta, p e n n a c e a ; o fa concav®, breviores, secundum
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sta tu ram , quam in genere Ramphasto d ic to ; primariis q u a rts , q u in ts e t sexta coeequalibus e t longissimis;
cauda g ra d a ta ■ pedes sc a n so rii; dig iti e x te n d in ten d s longiores ; acropodia scutulata.
B ill large , lig h t, s e rra ted on th e edges ; nostrils above situ a ted in th e base of th e b i l l ; tongue long, narrow and
fe a th e r-lik e ; wings sh o rte r in p ro p o rtio n th a n in th e genus Ramphastos; conc ave; fourth, fifth and sixth pri-»
maries equal, an d th e lo n g e s t; tail g ra d u a te d ; fe e t sca n so ria l; o u te r toes longer th a n th e inner.
Although very generally dispersed over South America, the Araparis have a less extended range than
the true Toucans. I have not seen any species from the countries southward of the latitude of Rio de
Janeiro, and no species have been found to the northward of Guatemala. The great countries of
Venezuela, Guiana, the forests of the Amazon generally, and Northern Brazil are the portions of the
Continent in which the species are found in the greatest abundance.
They are.—
15. Pteroglossus Arapari . . . . PI. XV.
16. --------------- Wiedi ' .................................... PI. XVI.
17. --------------- pluricinctus . . . . PI. XVII.
1 8 . ---------------poecilosternus PI. XVIII.
19. --------------- castanotis . . . . PI. XIX.
20. --------------- torquatus . . . . PI. XX.
21. --------------- erythropygius PI. XXI.
22. -------------- Humboldti . . . . . * PI. XXII.
23. --------------- inscriptus . . . . PI. XXIII.
24. --------------- v i r i d i s .................................... PI. XXIV.
Of these ten species seven are normal, and the remaining three somewhat aberrant; in fact the two
lettered Arafaris, P. Humboldti and P. mcriptus, might with propriety be separated into a distinct genus,
and the P . viridis made the type of another,