290 TOUCAN. 



11— ARACARI TOUCAN. 



Ramphastos Aracari, Ind. Ofn.\. 138. Lin.\. 151. Gm. Lin.i. 354. 



Tucana Bresiliensis viridis, Bris.iv. 426. t. 33. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 162. Gm'n. ii. 61. 



t. 204. Bor. Nat. ii. 9S. 

 Aracari, Rail. p. 44. Will. p. 96. t. 22. Id. Engh 140. t. 26. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 



Anal. p. lxxv. 

 Grigri, Buf. vii. 126. 



Tocan, Gabin. de Madrid, ii. p: 27. /am. 48. 

 Toucan verd du Bresil, PI. enl. 166. 

 Der kleine Toucan, Wirsing. Vog. t. 41. 

 Aracari Toucan, Gen. Syn.i. 332. Nat. Misc. pi. 198. Shaw's Zool. viii. 371. pi. 49. 



LENGTH nearly sixteen inches and three quarters. Bill four 

 inches and a quarter long, and sixteen lines thick at the base, tip 

 hooked ; the upper mandible white, marked above with a black 

 stripe the whole length ; the lower wholly black, the edges 

 deeply serrated ; irides yellow ; eye in a naked yellowish skin ; the 

 head, throat, and neck black ; on each side of the head a small chest- 

 nut spot, just above the ears ; the upper part of the back, scapulars, 

 and wing coverts bright red ; breast, belly, and sides brimstone, with 

 a mixture of red on the upper part of the breast; on the belly a bright 

 red band, eight lines broad ; the thighs and under tail coverts, olive- 

 green, irregularly mixed with red and deep yellow ; quills blackish, 

 edged with dull green ; tail cuneiform ; the outer feathers shorter 

 than the middle ones by above three inches and a half; the colour 

 dull green above, and paler beneath ; legs bluish green. 



Inhabits Brazil, Surinam, and Cayenne : at the first named place 

 called Arassaris. 



A. — Ramphastos Aracari, Lin. Syst. i. 151. 



Linnaeus describes this variety from Jacquin, as follows : the upper 

 part and tip of the upper mandible are black, whitish on the sides, 



