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mixed with afli-colour : the bill very large, and longer than the 

 body itfelf*: the eyes black: irides reddifh yellow. 

 Inhabits the fea-fhores of Mexico, and is faid to feed on fifh. 



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BLUE- 

 THROATED 

 T. 



N a lift of birds in the mufeum of Baron de Faugeres, of Mont- 

 pettier > I find one by the name of Toucan a, gorge bleue, with 

 this addition : " Ce Toucan n'eft decrit far aucun auteur." I do 

 not find a Toucan with a blue throat mentioned by any writer; 

 and muft therefore, with him, conclude it to be a new fpecies. 

 As it is but very lately that I have known this circumftance, it 

 has not been in my power to fay further on this head, refting the 

 whole., for the preient, on his opinion. 



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WHITE 



T. 



A LL we know of this fpecies is, that the bird is wholly of a 

 pure white f j and that it is now, or was very lately, alive, 

 in the menagerie of the King of Naples. 



* Fernandez obferves, that vaft flocks of birds, whofe bills are bigger than the 

 whole body, and the plumage variegated with yellow, red, white, and blue, 

 come at certain feafons into the province of Honduras ; whence it is likely, that 

 fome of the fpecies, at leaft, are migratory; for he muft mean one or other of 

 this genus. Fernand. Hift. p. 17. ch. xv. 



f A white Toucan is mentioned by Haiukefiuorth , in hisDefcription of Voyages 

 round the World, vol. i. p. 123. This was moft likely an Hornbill, and noE 

 a Toucan i reafons for which conjecture will be given in their place. 



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