3*6 • TOUCAN. 



the middle and end of the upper ; the edges of both mandibles 

 are red, and ferrated, bus not deeply : the noftrils are at the 

 bafe of the bill, hid in the feathers : the upper part of the head 

 and body are greenifh black : cheeks and throat brimftone : fore 

 part of the neck orange, furrounded with brimftone : breafr» 

 upper part of the belly, the upper and under tail coverts, fine 

 red : thighs greenifh black : bottom of the belly and fides 

 blackifh : quills and tail of a greenifh black ; the laft even at the 

 end : legs and claws black. 



3- Ramphaftos tucanus, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 151. N°5. 



BREASTED k e Toucan a gorge jaune duBrefil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 419, N° 5, pi. 32. f, I, 



T. ' ■ PI' enl- 307- 



Yellow-breafted Toucan, Edw. p. 329. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description.. TTlIS is two inches longer than the laft, and the bill an inch 

 and a quarter longer. It differs in having the cheeks, throat, 

 and fore part of the neck, of an orange-colour : on the breaft is a 

 crimfon band : the upper tail coverts brimftone, the under ones 

 only being crimfon. It differs too in the colour of the bill, the 

 bafe of which is grey, and from thence to the end black: legs 

 and claws lead-colour. This defcribed from the life by Mr. 

 Edwards*, from one at Lord Spencer's. 



• Edwards fays, that the bill of this bird had the upper mandible green, with 

 three long triangular fpots of orange on each fide, and the upper ridge yellow ; 

 lower mandible blue, fhaded with green in the middle ; points of both red : the 

 upper tail coverts white. 



Ramphaftos 



