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(Pteroglossus) are intormodinto in size ami coloration. Tluis, tlic si)(.'cit's (iyured, 

 7-". 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. Tlie bill is ]i;ile buff 

 and black. This species inhabits Urazil, and is rej)laced in the regions to the north of 

 that empire with a closely allied form, /-'. aracari. Our next illustration represents 

 the type of the restricted genus Juanphastos, the toco toucan {R. jncatus), tlie giant 

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



Fio. 208. — Jlamphaslos picalus, toco touean. 



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

 called A)i(li;/t'ii(i, fif half a dozen species, characterized by a uniform wash of color on 

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

 I'tcror/lossi. The most remarkable species is A. laniun'rostris, 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 surface 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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