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3700 £t.) ; Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 156, 1891 ; Brabourne 

 & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 160, no. 1575, 1912. 

 ? Pteroglossus sulcatus (nee Swains.), Cab. in Sc-homb. Reis. Guian. 

 iii. p. 721, no. 257, 1848. 



Adult female. General colour above and below fjreen ; cliin and 

 throat grey tinged Avith green ; niiiklle tail-feathers tipped wiih 

 ches^tiiut. "Eye reddish-hazel; cere ])urple ; legs and toes 

 bluish-green ; claws dark horn-colour''' (//. W/dtelt/). 



Total length 285 mm., bill from gape 57, wing 110, tail 95, 

 tarsus 31. 



The description of the female is taken from an exam[)le which 

 was collected at Quonga in October 1887. 



Adult male. Similar in colour to the adult female. Winf; 

 114; mm. 



The male described is in the British Museum and was col- 

 lected at Quonga by Whitely on the 11th of November, 1887 — 

 Salvin-Godman collection. 



AVe have examined the type of this species in the British 

 Museum, which appears, by the smallness of its bill and the 

 absence of notches on the cutting-edges of the upper mandible, 

 to be an iipmature bird. 



Breeding- season. Unknown. 



JS^est. Unrecorded. 



Eggs. Und escribed. 



Range. Confined to British Guiana : Quonga, collected by 

 AV'^hitely (McConnell collection) ; Kanuku Mountains {Schoni- 

 Iturgk) ; Merume Mountains, Mount Horaima, 15000 to 3700 ft., 

 Quonga ( Whitely). 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 721) that he 

 observed this bird in small companies in the Canuku Mountains, 

 and that its habits are the same as those of other species of 

 Toucans. 



Order PICIFORMES. 

 Family (JALBUIJD^L 



Tin* .J;ic;iinars are \)\\\\< of rather small size witli iHi;^!!! nu-tallic 

 and clo."<elv-spt plinuagc. Tbc cliicf cliaraclcr of the faiiiilv, 

 iiowtver. i> the bill, which i> long, pointf-d, and rtMnjiresscd. 



