BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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RampMstus iocard Salvin, Ibis, 1872, 323 (Chontales, Nicaragua). 

 [Burhynchus] tocard Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 228 



(Pallatanga, w. Ecuador). 

 Ramphastos swainsoniiGovLD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833, 69 (mts. of Colombia) ; 



1834, 73 (Colombia; "Mexico Australi"); Mon. Ramph., 1st ed., 1833, pi. 8 



and text. 

 Ramphastos swainsoni Sturm, ed. Gould's Mon. Ramph., 1841, pi 31 (pt iv 



pi. 1). 



RAMPHASTOS AMBIGUUS Swainson. 



WAGLER'S TOXTCAIT. 



Similar to R. swainsonii, but darker portion of the bill wholly 

 black or dark grayish horn color (without any red or pink tinge) 

 passing into black on terminal portion of mandible and along upper 

 margin of the dark maxillar area. 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 457-587 (522); wing, 202-219 

 (211.7); tail, 144-160 (134.2); culmen, 122-154 (141.2); tarsus, 

 47-53 (49.7); outer anterior toe, 35-42 (38.1).« 



Eastern Panama (Loma del Leon) through Colombia (Bogota; 

 Rio Barraton; Puerto Berrio; Manaure, Santa Marta) and Ecuador 

 (Pallatanga, Guayaquil, Nanegal, and Chimbo, Pacific slope; Napo, 

 Atlantic slope) to Peru (Chayavetas; Borgona; La Gloria), Venezuela 

 (Puerto Cabello ; Guataparo) and Trinidad. 



(?) Ramphastos tocard Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxiv, 1819, 281 (locality- 

 unknown; based on Le Tocarrf Levaillant, Toucans, pi. 9). 6 



(?) R[amphastos] tocard Vieillot, Enc. M6th., iii, 1823, 1430. 



Ramphastos ambiguus Swainson, Zool. lUustr., ser. 1, 3, no. 33, June, 1823, pi. 

 168 and text (locality unknown; based on a colored drawing by an unknown 

 artist).— Gould, Mon. Ramphastidse, ed. 2, 1854, pi. 5 and text.— Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 160 (Bogota, Colombia); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 325 (Pallatanga, w. Ecuador).— Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1869, 252 (Guataparo, Venezuela); 1873, 297 (Chayavetas, e. Peru).— Finsch, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 585 (Trinidad; crit.). 



« Four specimens. (No males examined.) 



& Wbile agreeing with the present species in most respects, both the description 

 and colored plate of Levaillant's Le Tocard give the color of the throat and foreneck 

 as pure white (instead of lemon yellow) and the upper tail-coverts bright red (instead 

 of white)! 



