. Illustrations of ornithology . and neck by a narrow band of primrose-yellow :on the rump there is also a few feathers of the same colour: the quills areblackish-brown : the tail is dusky sap-green, and all the feathers, exceptthe two exterior on each side, are tipped with orange coloured brown :the hypochondrias are saffron-yellow, blended with primrose-yellow on thecentre of the vent, and on the lower part of it inclining to oil-green : theunder tail-coverts are dark scarlet-red: the feet and legs are blackish-blue. Those parts of the plumage which are black in the male, are in the fe-male
. Illustrations of ornithology . and neck by a narrow band of primrose-yellow :on the rump there is also a few feathers of the same colour: the quills areblackish-brown : the tail is dusky sap-green, and all the feathers, exceptthe two exterior on each side, are tipped with orange coloured brown :the hypochondrias are saffron-yellow, blended with primrose-yellow on thecentre of the vent, and on the lower part of it inclining to oil-green : theunder tail-coverts are dark scarlet-red: the feet and legs are blackish-blue. Those parts of the plumage which are black in the male, are in the fe-male deep orange coloured brown, paler beneath: the auricular feathersare deep oil-green, tipped with primrose-yellow. i 2 PTEROGLOSSUS MACULATUS. Dr Latham has figured the female of this species in his General His-tory of Birds, under the title of the Janeiro Toucan, and appears toconfound it with that of the pipeline species (P. piperivorus), which mayat once be distinguished from it by the different form and colour of thebill 2 v / / 9V
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