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TOUCAN. 



GENUS VII.— TOUCAN. 



1 



Toco Toucan 



8 



Pavonine Toucan 



2 



Yellow-throated Toucan 



9 



Green Toucan 



3 



Yellow-breasted Toucan 



10 



Smooth-billed Toucan 



4 



Brazilian Toucan 



11 



Aracari Toucan 



5 



Red-billed Toucan 





A.— Jaequin's Toucan 



6 



7 



Preacher Toucan 

 Collared Toucan 



12 



Piperine Toucan 



13 Janeiro Toucan 



14 Black-billed Toucan 



15 Blue Toucan 



16 Blue-throated Toucan 



17 Blue-eared Toucan 



18 White-cheeked Toucan 



THE bill in this genus is disproportionably large, convex, 

 carinated on the top, and bending at the end ; hollow, very light, 

 and serrated at the edges;* nostrils small and round, placed close 

 to the head, and in many species quite hid in the feathers. 



Tongue long and narrow, feathered at the edges. 



Tail consisting of ten feathers. 



None of this Genus have been found, except in South Ame- 

 rica, and within the Tropics only, being very impatient of cold. 

 The food, in their natural state, consists of fruits only, especially 

 those of the palm kind. They are generally met with in small 

 flocks of eight or ten, and keep moving from place to place, in quest 

 of food, going northward, or southward as the fruits ripen, but are 

 not strictly migratory. They make the nest in hollows of trees, 

 abandoned by the Woodpeckers, and not formed by themselves, as 

 some think ; the structure of the bill not allowing of the efforts to 

 make, or even to enlarge, a hole in the tenderest wood, as it yields to 



* These serratures do not correspond in the two mandibles, nor are they similar on the 

 opposite sides of the same mandible; the whole is unequal and irregular, contrary to the rest 

 of the productions of nature in general, nor is the use of these serrated edges manifest, being 

 placed directly opposite to the intention of retaining whatever is meant to be held in the bill. 

 There is, however, one species, in which the edges of the bill is smooth. 



