TOUCAN. 293 



14.—BLACK BILLED TOUCAN. 



Ramphastos luteus, Ind.Orn.'i. 139. Gm. Lin.i. 356. 



Tucana lutea, Bris. iv. 432. Id. Svo. ii. 164. 



Alia Xochitenacatl, Will. 298. Id. Engl. p. 386. 



Aracari a Bee noir, Buff. vii. 130. 



Black-billed Toucan, Gen. St/n. i, 335. Shaio's Zool. viii. 373. 



SIZE of a Pigeon. Bill black, thick, and bent ; hides yellow ; 

 general colour of the body yellowish white ; on each side of the neck 

 from the bill to the breast, a longitudinal stripe of black ; lesser 

 wing coverts yellow ; the middle and greater coverts, scapulars and 

 quills, varied with white and black ; tail the same colour; legs brown. 



Inhabits Mexico. 



15 —BLUE TOUCAN. 



Ramphastos coevuleus, Ind. Orn. i. 139. Gm. Lin. i. 357. 



Tucana ccerulea, Bris. iv. 433. Id. 8vo. ii. 165. 



L' Aracari bleu, Buf. vii. 131. 



Xochitenacatl, Fern. Hist. 47. C. 146.* Johnst. 126. 157. t. 56. Nieremb. p. 209. 



Blue Toucan, Gen. Syn. i. 335. Shaw's Zool. viii. 374. 



THIS is said to be the size of a Pigeon ; the colour wholly blue, 

 mixed with ash-colour. Bill large, and longer than the body ; hides 

 reddish yellow. 



Inhabits the shores of Mexico, hence thought to feed on fish. 



* Fernandez observes, that vast flocks of birds, whose bills are bigger than the whole 

 body, and the plumage variegated with yellow, red, white, and blue, come at certain sea- 

 sons into the Province of Honduras ; whence it is likely that some of the species, at least, 

 are migratory ; for he must mean one or other of this Genus.— Fertiand. Hist. p. 17. ch. xv. 



