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(Pteroglossus) are intermediate in size and coloration. Thus, the species figured, 

 P. wiedii, has a black head and neck, mantle green, under surface yellow, with the 

 rump and a broad band across the lower breast beautiful red. The bill is pale buff 

 and black. This species inhabits Brazil, and is replaced in the regions to the north of 

 that empire with a closely allied form, P. aracari. Our next illustration represents 

 the type of the restricted genus Ramphastos, the toco toucan (R. picatiis), the giant 

 of the family. It is black, foreneck and rump white, under tailcoverts red, bill 



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FIG. 208. Ramphaslospicatus, toco toucan. 



orange and black, feet blue. Restricted to the slopes of the Andes is a small genus, 

 called Andigena, of half a dozen species, characterized by a uniform wash of color on 

 the under surface, instead of the bars of rich red and black so conspicuous in the true 

 Pteroglossi. The most remarkable species is A. laminirostris, the laminated hill- 

 toucan, the native habitat of which is the forests at the base of Pichincha, a high 

 mountain of Ecuador. Upper side of head and neck are black, back golden brown, 

 rump pale sulphur yellow, under sin-face ashy blue with a yellow patch on the flanks, 

 under tail-coverts blood-red. Most curious and unique is the laminated appendage of 

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