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tenths long, and eight tenths across the base : the 

 colour is deep straw, or buff-yellow ; the top of the 

 upper mandible and tips of both are black ; parallel 

 with the marginal base of the upper is a black line, 

 which is very broad on that of the lower ; the edges 

 of both are serrated, and marked by short black lines, 

 somewhat resembling oriental characters : at the base 

 of the beak there is an elevated rim of deeper yellow : 

 the ears, chin, and throat are deep chesnut, margined 

 in front with a narrow line of black (which parts in 

 the male are entirely black) ; the crown of the head 

 and neck above also black, changing to a dark bluish- 

 green on the wings, back, and tail : the rump crim- 

 son, and the greater quills blackish : from the breast 

 to the vent straw-coloured yellow, with a greenish 

 cast ; the thighs and flank olive : tail wedged, near 

 five inches long : the orbits appear to have been 

 black : and the legs green. Guiana." — Swainson, 



Sp. 5. Pt. sulcatus. Swain. Zool. Illusi. v. i. pi. 44. 



Pt. viridis subtus pallidior; jugulo albescente; circa oculos cceru- 



leis; rostrum duobus sulcis longitudinalibus incisum. 

 Green Aracari pale benea^th ; with the jugulum whitish ; round 



the eyes blue ; the beak with two longitudinal grooves. 

 Blue-eared Toucan. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. ii, p. 294, 



Figured and thus commemorated by Mr. Swain- 

 son : — " Total length twelve inches, of which the 

 beak in extreme length measures three : it is much 

 curved and more attenuated than any of the Aracaris, 

 being thickest at the base, from which it narrows to 

 a sharp point at the tip : the upper part is convex, 

 and somewhat thickened ; the sides are compressed, 



