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" choicest morsels from his food pan and feed them through the meshes. 

 " I am certain one Bulbul relied solely on him for all the food it ate, and I 

 " never saw it feed from the pan itself. Often still smaller birds got into the 

 " aviary with the Toucan, and whenever they did so he would offer them 

 " food. On the other side of him were the Parrakeets, and he was just as 

 " attentive to them, especially to a female Bulla Bulla." 



Their nests are placed very liigli. 



Mr. Goodfellovv remarks iu closing, that in a country gar- 

 den they could be given their liberty without fear of theii 

 straying away when once they knew the place. He states that 

 the Indians of Eastern Ecuador kept various kinds of Toucans 

 which were given full liljerty in the forests round their huts. 

 It was remarkable how quickly they came flying back to the 

 huts on the slightest call from the Indians or when they saw 

 cooking going on. 



According to Mr. Osbalde.ston who has kept ten 

 species of these qtiaint and interesting birds, giving 

 his experience in the Avicidtural Magazi7ie, Vol. V., 

 when once moulted in a good sized cage or aviary, and 

 fed upon a suitable diet, they become verj' ornamental 

 and desirable birds. His diet was a mixture composed 

 of yolk of egg*, ants' eggs, grocers' currants, various 

 seeds ground down, mixed with pea meal, put into a 

 warm oven with syrup ; adding beef dripping to this 

 mixtitre as required for use. They also get soaked 

 currants, grapes, bananas ctit up fine, apples and pears. 

 Mealworms they took readily from the hand. 



Mr. Osbaldeston prefers the larger species, as being 

 more brilliantly coloured, more docile and attached to- 

 their keepers. 



Dr. Sclater (Cat., Brit. Mus., Vol. XIX.) recognises 

 five genera, containing in all fifty-nine species of these, 

 only a few can be mentioned in this paper. 



RHAMPHASTOS (14) toco, cariiiatus, brevicarinatus. tocard, ambigutts, 

 erythrorhytichus, inca, cuvieri, culniinaius, cittiolaemuSy 

 osctilaeits, ariel, vilzlliniis, dicolorus. 



• The yolk of egg would be better left out. 



