330 TOUCAN. 



lame colour as the back, but more dull i tail even at the end, of 

 a greenifli black colour, tipped with, red ; beneath black : legs 

 and claws black. 

 Place and Inhabits Guiana and Brqfil. It is named the Preacher *, from 



the noife it makes with its tongue. It feeds generally on fruits j 

 but it is eafily tamed, and in that ftate it will eat almoft any 

 thing that is offered it f . One which Albin obferved in England 

 feemed more fond of grapes than any other fruit; for being 

 plucked off from the ftalk one by one, and tofTed to it, it would, 

 moil dexteroufly catch them in the air, before they fell to the 

 ground. This author likewife obferves, that the flefh of the_ 

 whole body was of a deep violet-colour J.. 



7> Le Toucan a. collier du Mexique, Brif. era. iv. p. 4.21. N° 6. 



COLLARED: T n , - , B , ., .. * * 



rp he Locnical, Buf. oif. vn. p. 124. 



CochitenacatI, Fern. Hifi. N. Hifp. p. 46. ch..i. 60. 



Description.. ' ENGTH eighteen inches. The bill feven inches : upper 

 mandible whitifh i the lower black: irides reddifh yellow: 



JLj 



*■ The name of Preacher has been given to this bird, from itscuftom of perch- 

 ing at the top of a tree, above its companions, while they are afleep, and mak- 

 ing a noife refembling ill-articulated founds; moving his head to the right and 

 left, in order to keep oft" the birds of prey from feizing on the others. Vlloa's 

 Voy. Eng. edit. Svo. vol. i. p. 56. 



f Thei/et, who is the firft who has mentioned this bird, fays, that it feeds on 

 pepper, of which it often fwallows fo much, that it is obliged to rejecT: part of it 

 again ; but, unluckily for this circumftance, it is well known that do pepper 

 grows in South America, therefore it muft be, if any kind of pepper, that fort 

 known by the name of long-pepper. Hifi. des oif — Mem. Cap/icums are called 

 peppers in South America and the Weft Indies. May it not have been this kind of 

 pepper ? 



J. This has been obferved in molt of the fpecies. Hifi. des oif. 



the 



