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found in various part* of South America. The bafe and 

 back of the bill are yellow ; tip of the upper mandible, and 

 hollow of the lower, red ; the nollrils are edged with black ; 

 the orbits aie blueilh j the legs are plumbeous, and the claws 

 are black. 



TuCANUS ; Yellow-breafted Toucan. This is alfo black- 

 ifh ; the abdominal band, vent, and rump, yellow. It mea- 

 fures about nineteen inches in length, and has been defcribed 

 by Mr. Edwards from a living fpcciraen brought into Eng- 

 land. According to this gentleman, the bill of this fpecies 

 is large in proportion to the fize of the bird ; it is compreffed 

 fideways, having a (harp ridge along its upper part, and 

 toothed on its edges ; the upper mandible is green, with a 

 long triangular fpot of orange colour on each fide, and the 

 ridge on the upper part yellow ; the lower mandible is blue, 

 with a (hade of green in the middle ; the point is red ; it 

 has about five tranfverfe faint dudiy bars, which crofs the 

 joinings of the two mandibles ; the noftrils are invilible in 

 the black line that furrounds the bill ; the iris of the eye is 

 of a fair green colour ; round the eye is a broad fpace oi 

 naked (l<in, of a violet colour ; the (l<in beneath the teathers 

 is of a violet colour, below which is a bar of fcarlet feathers, 

 which parts the yellow on the brealt from the black on the 

 belly ; the covert -feathers of the tail are white above, and 

 thole beneath are of a fine red ; the crown of the head, 

 upper part of the neck, the back, wings, belly, and tail, 

 wholly black, though on the upper fide of the wings and 

 tail it has a changeable glofs of blueifh-purple ; the legs 

 and feet are all of a blue or violet colour. The fpecimen 

 from which this defcription was made, was brought from 

 Jamaica, but the bird is a native of the hotter parts of South 

 America. 



PiCATUs ; Preacher Toucan. Blackifli ; bread yellow, 

 vent and tips of the tail-feathers red, rump black. It in- 

 habits Guinea and Brazil, and is more than twenty inches 

 long. The bill is yellowifh-green, tipt with rcddi(h ; the 

 belly is red ; the tail is dotted with red at the tip. This 

 bird is faid to have a frequent habit of moving its head from 

 fide to fide, while uttering its notes ; hence it has obtained 

 the name of preacher. 



DicoLORUS ; Yellow-throflted Toucan. Blackifh ; brcaft, 

 belly, vent, and rump, red ; the chin is yellow. It inhabits 

 Cayenne, and is feventeen inches long. The bill is olive, 

 with a black bafe ; the mandibles are edged with red ; the 

 cheeks are of a fulphur colour ; the throat is orange, but 

 edged with fulphur. 



Toco ; Wiiite-throated Toucan. Blacki(h ; chin, throat, 

 and rump, white ; orbits, circle on the breail:, and vent, red. 

 It inhabits Cayenne, and is about nine or ten inches long. 

 The bill is of a reddi(h-yellow, the bafe is black ; the upper 

 mandible is black at the tip. 



Indicus ; Indian Toucan. The throat, quill-feathers, and 

 tail, black ; the cheeks and breail are white ; belly and 

 thighs are yellow ; the crown is of a reddifh-orange ; rump 

 crimfon. It is found in divers parts of India. The bill is 

 hardly ferrate, and not fo large as in the others. 



LuTEUS ; Yellow Toucan. This is of a yellowi(h-white ; 

 the neck is marked with two black lateral ftripes ; the tail 

 and wings are variegated with black and white ; the lelTer 

 wing-coverts are yellow. It inhabits New Spain, and is 

 about the fize of a pigeon. The bill is black ; the indes 

 are yellow ; the legs are brown ; the claws are yellowifh. 



C^RULEUS ; Blue Toucan. Blue mixed with cinereous. 

 It inhabits the coafts of New Spain. The bill is longer 

 than the body ; the eyes are black and tlie irides are tawny. 



DuBiUS. This is the blue-throated toucan of Mr. La- 

 tham, defcribed from a catalogue of the mufeum of baron 



Fangeres of Montpellier, where it is announced as an unde- 

 fcribed fpecies. 



Al.BUS ; White Toucan. Thia is entirely white. 



RAMPICHERLA, in Geography, a town of Hin- 

 dooltan, in the circar of Guntoor ; 12 miles N.E. of 

 Innaconda. 



RAMPIN, in the Manege. See ToE. 



RAMPION, in Bo/any. See RapuNCULUs, of which 

 Dr. Johnfon fuppofes it a corruption. See alfo Phytelma. 



Rampioxs, CreJIed, a fpecies of the lobelia. 



Rampions, Common efculent, a fpecies of the campanula; 

 which fee. 



Rampions •tuUh fcabious heads. See Jasionk. 



RAMPOUR, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 13 

 miles N. of Curruckjiour. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in Bahar ; 31 miles N.W. of Bettiah. — Alfo, a town of 

 Almora ; 30 miles N.N.W. of Bereilly. N. lat. 28^-' 45'. 

 E. long. 79^ 22'. — Alio, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude, 

 on the Ganges ; 34 miles N.W. of Manickpour. — Alfo, a 

 town of Hindooftan, in Oude, on an ifland formed by the 

 divided ftream of the Dewah ; 35 miles N.E. of Lucknow. 

 — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 25 miles E.S.E. 

 of Goorackpour. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 

 30 miles N.E. of Goorackpour. — Alfo, a town of Hin- 

 dooftan, in the Carnatic ; 50 miles S.W. of Nellore. — Alfo, 

 a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Boggilcund ; 20 

 miles W. of Rewah. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in Be- 

 nares ; 20 miles N.W. of Bidzigur. — Alfo, a town of 

 Hindooftan, in the circar of Schaurunpour; 23 miles S.S.W. 

 of Schaurunpour. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in the cir- 

 car of Oudipour ; 40 miles E.N.E. of Oudipour. 



RAMPS, in Fortification, are gentle Hopes made for the 

 cannon to be drawn up and down by, and alfo for the eafy 

 communication of the troops ported in a battery that is 

 railed above the level of the ground on which it is built. 

 The rife of thefe Hopes is about two inches, on twelve of 

 bafe, or the length of the ramp's bafe is fix times the 

 height, and this is general for the draught of carriages ; 

 but footways need not be of fo gentle a ilope, as a rife in 

 one foot in three may anfwer the purpofe ; or, inftead of 

 ramps, flairs may be, and commonly are, ufed for the paf- 

 fage of the foot. The breadth of a carriage ramp is 

 ufually about nine or ten feet, that breadth being fufficient 

 both for the carriage and footway ; but thofe for foot- 

 paflage only need not be above three or four feet wide. 

 Ramps may either rife on the fide of an elevated work, or 

 againft a faliant angle of that work, or on each fide of an 

 entering angle. 



RAMQUILLA, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in 

 the province of Smaland ; 5 miles N.W. of Calmar. 



RAMSAY, Allan, in Biography, a poet of confidcrable 

 celebrity, who wrote in the Scottifh dialeft, was born in 

 the year 1686, inthepariOi of Crawford, Lanerklhire. He 

 received no other education than that of the parifh fchool, 

 and was apprenticed to a barber in Edmburgh. It has not 

 been afcertained when he firft began to make verfes ; but 

 about the year 17 15, feveral of his poems had been pub- 

 li(hed. Soon after this he laid afide the trade to which he 

 had been brought up, and adopted the more congenial one 

 of a bookfeller. In 172 1 his detached poems were pnb- 

 lifhed, by fubfcription, in a quarto volume. In 1724 he 

 began to pubufii Ins colleftion of fongs, entitled " The 

 Tea-table Mifcellany," which at length extended to four 

 volumes. This work was followed by one, entitled " The 

 Evergreen," being a colleftion of fosgs written by the in- 

 genious before the year 1600. Thefe publications were 

 well received ; but his fame was greatly extended by his 

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