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Cat. A. B. p. 324 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 233 ; Cassin, Pi: Ac. Sc. 



Phil. 1867, p. 100 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 108 ; White, P. Z. S. 



1882, p. (520 (Ai-fT. Rep.); Salv. Ibis, 188(5, p. (35 (Brit. Giiian.) ; 



Bcrl.J.f. O. 1.S87, pp. 2o, 121 (Para-uay) ; Scl. et Iliuh. Av<j. 



Orn. ii. p. 40. 

 \jii Toco, Lei'iiill. Ois. de Par. ii. p. 7, pi. 2. 

 TiiCiliio, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 2-36 (Paraguay), 

 llainpliasto.s maguirostris, Sir. Class. B. ii. p. 299 (!■'). 

 Kaiupliastos albogularis, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1867, p. 101 (S. 



Brazil). 



Above black ; rump white : beneath black ; throat and fore neck 

 white, slightly tinged with yellow on the neck and narrowly bor- 

 dered with red ; crissum crimson ; bill orange, with a largo black 

 blotch at the end of the upper mandible : whole length 22 inches, 

 wing S"0, tail 0, bill from gape (5-4. Female similar. 



Hah. Guiana, Lower Amazouia, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and 

 N. Argentina. 



The more southern bird has been separated as R. alhoguJaris ; but 

 I fail to appreciate any sufficiently distinctive characters, although 

 the throat in southern specimens is perhaps rather more white. 



a. Ad. st. British Guiana. R. Schomburgk [C.l. 



b. Ad. sk. British Guiana. R. Schomburgk [C.]. 

 e. Ad. sk. Demerara. Salviu-Godman CoU. 

 d,e. S2 ad. sk. Para. Gould Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Me.xiana, Lower Amazons Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( Wallace^. 

 (J. Ad. sk. 8.E. BrazU. Sclater Coll. 



/(. S ad. sk. Pelotas, Rio Grande do Salviu-Godman Cull. 



Sul (Joi/ner). 

 i, k. Ad. sk. Chapada, Mato Grosso {S. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



H. Smith). 



2. Rhamphastos carinatus. 



Ramphastos piscivorns, Linn. S. N. i. p. lol ; Gtnel. S. N'. i. p. 355 ; 



Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 13(5 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 93 ; Later. Ann. Lye. 



N. Y. viii. p. 183 (Nicaragua); -SW. Cat. A. B. p. 324. 

 Ramphastos carinatus, Sio. Zool. III. ser. 1 , vol. i. pi. 45 ; lJ'a//l. Si/st. 



-ly. sp. 7; Gould, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 73; id. .Monoijr. Ramph. ed. 1, 



pi. 7, et ed. 2, pi. 2 ; Sturm, Mon. Ramph. pt. iii. pi. 2: Bp. P. Z. S. 



18;57, p. 108; Tsch. Faun. Per., Ares, p. 2Gl ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, 



p. 308 (S. Mexico), 1859, p. 5'.» (Honduras), et pp. 368, 388 (S. 



Mexico) : Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 135 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 837 



(Honduras); iid. Xonmicl. p. 108; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Sc. Philad. 



181)7, p. 102 ; Sale. Ibis, 1889, p. 373 (Yucatan) ; Rid(/w. P. U.S. 



N. M. vi. p. 407 (Nicaragua), et ix. p. 163 (Mexico) ; Boiw. 



P. Z. S. 1S83, p. 455 (Yucatan), 

 itamphaslos tucanua, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 3ii2. 

 Ramphastos callorliiuchus, If'affl. Si/st. Av. sp. 6. 

 Ramphastos snUiuatus, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 173. 



Above black ; rump white ; nape stained with dark maroon- 

 purple ; beneath black ; throat and fore neck dear yellow, with a 

 faint scarlet border below : crissum scarlet : bill dark, with a large 



