BIRDS 03" NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 



339 



Ramphasttts tocard Salvin, Ibis, 1872, 323 (Ghontales, Nicaragua). 

 [Burhynchus] tocard Heine and Rbichbnow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 228 



(Pallatanga, w. Ecuador). 

 Ramphastosswainsonii Govu), Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833, 69 (mts. of Colombia); 



1834, 73 (Colombia; "Mexico Australi"); Mon. Ramph., 1st ed., 1833, pi. 8 



and text. 

 Ramphastos swainsoni Sttjbm, ed. Gould's Mon. Ramph., 1841, pi. 31 (pt. iv, 



pi. 1). 



RAMPHASTOS AMBIGUITS Swainson. 



WAGLER'S TOirCAN. 



Similar to B. swaiTWonii, but darker portion of the bill whoUy 

 black or dark grayish horn color (without any red or pink tinge) 

 passing into black on terminal portion of mandible and along upper 

 margin of the dark maxiUar area. 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 457-587 (522); wing, 202-219 

 (211.7); taU, 144-160 (134.2); cuhnen, 122-154 (141.2); tarsus, 

 47-53 (49.7); outer anterior toe, 35-42 (38.1).« 



Eastern Panama (Loma del Le6n) through Colombia (Bogota; 

 Rio Barrat6n; Puerto Barrio; Manaure, Santa Marta) and Ecuad6r 

 (Pallatanga, Guayaquil, Nanegil, and Chimbo, Pacific slope; Napo, 

 Atlantic slope) to Peru (Chayavetas; Borgona; La Gloria), Venezuela 

 (Puerto Cabello; Guataparo) and Trinidad. 



(?) Ramphastos tocard Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxiv, 1819, 281 (locality 

 unknown; based on Le Tocard Levaillant, Toucans, pi. 9) .6 



(?) R[amphastos] tocard Vieillot, Enc. M6th., iii, 1823, 1430. 



Ramphastos ambiguus Swainson, Zool. Illustr., ser. 1, 3, no. 33, June, 1823, pi. 

 168 and text (locality unknown; based on a colored drawing by an unknown 

 artist). — Gould, Mon. Ramphastidse, ed. 2, 1854, pi. 5 and text. — Sclatbe, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 160 (Bogota, Colombia); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 325 (Pallatanga, w. Ecuador). — Sclatbk and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1869, 252 (Guataparo, Venezuela); 1873, 297 (Chayavetas, e. Peru). — Finsch, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 585 (Trinidad; crit.). 



" Four specimens. (No males examined.) 



6 While agreeing with the present species in most respects, both the description 

 and colored plate of Levaillant's Le Tocard give the color of the throat and foreneck 

 as pure white (instead of lemon yellow) and the upper tail-coverts bright red (instead 

 of white)! 



