113 BIRDS IN THE MUSEUM OF VASSAR COLLEGE. 
ily is well represented in the East Indies; but it is more 
fully developed in the New World where there are about 
twenty-five species. In splendor of plumage they are sur- 
passed only by the Hummers ; in stupidity, by the Jacamars. 
Their only utterance sounds like Te vio/ (I see thee). They 
are zygodactylous, but unlike the woodpeckers and parrots, 
the third or longest toe being the inward of the two forward 
toes instead of the outward. 
Andigena laminirostris Gould. This rare bird represents : 
a remarkable group of Toucans characterized by the dense 
villose clothing of the under surface. This species is found 
at Nanegal on the west slope of the Andes ; not in the neigh- 
borhood of Quito, as stated by Mr. Gould. The Toucans, of 
which thirty-five species occur at the equator, are confined 
to tropical America. They live in dense forests in small 
companies. Their flight is laborious but not jerky. On the 
ground they hop like a robin. They have a shrill though 
variable cry, which sometimes has a vague resemblance to 
tocano, and again to pia-po-o-co. The imaginative natives 
call them Preachers, because they seem to make the sign of 
the cross by wagging the head up, then to the left, next to 
the right, and finally down, saying at each movement Dios 
tode (God gave it you). The sexes are exactly alike. The 
most common species on the Upper Amazon are Cuvier?, 
Humboldtii and pleuricinctus. 
Tetragonops ramphastinus Jard. This singular Barbet is 
called by the natives venenero or deer-hunter, because it 
whistles with ventriloqual powers. None of the Capitonide 
sing. The phlegmatic Buecos or * pig-birds," as the Indians 
call them, seem to have their head-quarters in Eastern Peru. 
The Tetragonops is a connecting link between the Barbets 
and Toucans. 
Lesbia Ortoni Lawr. Type. This remarkably fine spe- 
cies is the latest addition to the Trochilidæ. It was discov- 
ered in the Valley of Quito at the foot of the isolated 
mountain Ilalo, and is the only specimen ever found. The 
