288 TOUCAN. 



8.— PAVONINE TOUCAN. 



Ramphastos Pavoninus, Lid. Orn. i. 137. Gm. Lin. i. 353. 

 Tucana Mexicana viridis, Bris.iv. 423. 7tZ.8vo.ii. 161. 

 Xochitenacatl, Fern. H. N. Hisp. p. 31: c. 187. 

 Hochicat, Buf. vii. 125. 

 Pavonine Toucan, Gen. Syn.'i. 331. Shaiv's Zool. viii. 370. 



SIZE of the Yellow-throated species. Bill almost four inches 

 long. Colour yellow and black mixed ; the whole plumage green, 

 mixed with some feathers of a reddish colour; and others like those of 

 a Peacock, here and there interspersed among the rest ; legs black. 



Inhabits the hotter parts of Mexico, near the sea. Both these 

 last are supposed to feed on fish, but this circumstance, as before said, 

 is by no means ascertained. 



9— GREEN TOUCAN. 



Ramphastos viridis, Ind. Orn.'u 138. Lin. i. 150. Gm. Lin.'i. 353. Nat. Misc. 



pi. 717. 

 Tucana Cayanensis viridis, Bris.'w. 423. t. 33. 2. 7rf.8vo.ii. 162. 

 Toucan verd de Caj€nne, PI. enl. 727. 728. Buf. vii. 127. 

 Aracaii, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. anal. p. lxxv.. 

 Yellow-breasted Toucan, Ediv. pi. 329. 

 Green Toucan, Gen. Syn.i. 131. Shaw's Zool. viii. 370- pi. 48. 



THIS is not much bigger than a Blackbird ; length fourteen 

 inches. Bill three inches; the upper mandible yellow at the top, 

 and red on the sides, between these a line of black ; the lower man- 

 dible black ; at the base red, with a tinge of red about the nostrils ; 

 the edges of both serrated; the serratures white; orbits naked, yellow; 

 irides yellow; the head, throat, and neck before fine black; neck 

 behind, back, scapulars, upper wing and tail coverts, and thighs 

 dull green ; rump bright red ; the lower part of the neck before, and 



