286 TOUCAN. 



6— PREACHER TOUCAN. 



Ramphastos picatus, Ind. Orn. i, 137. Lin. i. 152. Gm. Lin. i. 356. 



Tucana, Bris. iv. 408. Id. 8vo. ii. 156. 



Pica Brasilica Aldr. Rati, 44, 1. Will. p. 88. t. 20. Spalowsk. Vog. hi. t. 9. * 



Nasutus simpliciter, Klein. Av. p. 38, 1. 



Toucan a ventre rouge, Biif. vii. 122. 



Brasilian Pye, or Toucan, Alb. ii. pi. 25.f Will. Engl. 128. pi. 20. 



Aldrovandine Toucan, Shaw's Zool. viii. 366. 



Preacher Toucan, Gen. Syn.i. p. 329. 



LENGTH twenty inches ; bill six, and near two thick at the 

 base ; it is mostly yellowish green, and reddish at the tip ; nostrils 

 at the base, but not covered with feathers ; the head, neck, throat, 

 upper part of the back, and scapulars, glossy black, with a tinge of 

 green ; the lower part of the back, rump, upper tail, and wing 

 coverts the same, inclining to ash-colour ; the breast fine orange ; J 

 belly, sides, thighs, and lower tail coverts, bright red ; beneath the 

 wings black ; quills as the back, but more dull ; tail even at the 

 end, greenish black, tipped with red ; beneath black ; legs black. 



* In this figure the tail is not tipped with red. f The toes are placed three before and 

 one behind, no doubt by mistake. 



% The yellow part from the throat to the thigh is taken off" by the natives, and either 

 sold by them, or made present of as a rarity. Pernetty mentions fifty of these being pre- 

 sented to a Captain of a ship. There are many sorts at the Isle of St. Catherine, on the 

 coast of Brazil, some of which have light blue irides, surrounded with a circle of white, 

 and others black. The bill of some is green, with a circle of black, and two white spots at 

 the root ; that of others is black, but red within, with a yellow green circle near the head. 

 The cry is Toucaraca, whence the name.—Pernett. Voy. p. 180. 



