Plate 25. Cassell's Book of Birds
PHAROMACRUS ANTISIANUS ____ BEAUTIFUL TROGON
(about one half Nat. size)
THE ARASSARI.
The ARASSARI (Pteroglossus aracari), a native of Brazil, is principally of a deep metallic green; the throat and head are black, the cheeks shaded with brownish violet, and the lower breast and belly pale greenish yellow; the rump, and a line along the centre of the belly, are red; the tail is blackish green above and greyish green beneath. The eye is brown, the bare places round the eyes are greyish black, the upper mandible is yellowish white, with black culmen and mouth-corners, while the lower portion of the bill is black, edged with white; the legs are greenish grey. This species is seventeen inches long; the wing measures six, and the tail six and a half inches.
THE TOCO TOUCAN (Ramphastus toco).