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Genus VI. TOUCAN. 



N° i. The Toco. N° 8. Pavonine T, 



2. Yellow-throated Tou- 9. Green T. 



can. 10. Aracari T. 



3. — breaftedT. 11. Piperine T. 



4. BrafilianT. 12. Black-billed T. 



5. Red-beaked T. 13. Blue T. 



6. Preacher T. 14. Blue-throated T. 



7. Collared T. 1 5. White T. 



THE bill in this genus is difproportionably large, convex* 

 carinated on the top, and bending at the end 5 hollow, 

 very light, and ferrated * at the edges : noftrils fmall and round* 

 placed clofe to the head, and in many fpecies quite hid in the 

 feathers. 



Tongue long and narrow, feathered on the edges. 



Toes placed two forwards, two backwards. 



None of this genus have been found, except in South America, 

 and within the tropics only, being very impatient of cold. Their 

 food, in their natural ftate, confifts of fruits only, and efpecially 



* Thefe ferratures do not correfpond In the two mandibles, nor are they fimi- 

 Iar on the oppofite fides of the fame mandible ; the whole is unequal and irregu- 

 lar, contrary to the reft of the productions of nature in general ; nor is the ufe of 

 thefe ferrated edges manifeft, being placed dire&ly oppofite to the intention of re- 

 taining whatever is meant to be held in the bill. 



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