TOUCAN. 



many other birds, varying confiderably ; and in mod birds, in- 

 deed, the colour of the male furpafles that of the female in 

 brightnefs. 



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Ramphaftos picatus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 152. N° 6. 

 Le Toucan, Brif. orn. iv. p. 408. N° 1. 

 Le Toucan a ventre rouge, Buf. oif. vii. p. 122. 

 Pica Brafilica, Rati Syn. p. 44.. N° 1. 

 Brafilian Pye, or Toucan, Will. orn. 128. pi. 20. 

 Brafilian Pye, Albin ii. pi. 25 *. 

 Lev. Muf, 



6. 



PREACHER 



T. 



^TTHIS is one foot eight inches and a half in length. The bill 

 is fix inches long, and near two inches thick at the bafe j 

 this is moftly of a yellowifh green, and reddifh at the tip : ndf- 

 trils at the bafe of the bill, but not covered with feathers : the 

 head, throat, neck, upper part of the back, and fcapulars, are 

 glofiy black, with a tinge of green : the lower part of the back, 

 rump, upper tail and wing coverts, the fame, with a caft of aih- 

 colour : the breaft of a fine orange f : belly, fides, thighs, and 

 lower tail coverts, bright red : under the wings black : quills the 



* The toes are placed three before and one behind in this plate, no doubt by 

 miflake. 



+ The fkins of thefe birds, viz. the yellow part, from the throat to the thighs, 

 are taken off by the natives, and either fold by them, or made prefents of as ra- 

 rities. Pernetty mentions fifty of thefe being made a prefent to a captain of 

 a Ihip. There are many forts at the IJIe 0/ St. Catherine, on the coaft of Brafil, 

 fome of which have light blue irides furrounded with a white circle, and others 

 ■black. The bill of fome is green, with a circle of black, and two white fpots at 

 the root : that of others is black, but red within, with a yellow green circle near 

 the head. The cry is Toucaraca, whence the name. Pernetty Voy, p. j8o. 



Uu fame 



Description. 



