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YELtOW-BREASTED TOUCAN. 



Ramphastos Tucanus. R» niger, collo antice flaw , fascia pectorali 

 crissoque ruhris. 



Black Toucan, with the fore-part of the neck yellow, and red 



pectoral bar and vent-feathers. 

 Ramphastos Tucanus? R. nigricans^ fascia abdominali crisso 



uropygioquc flaiis* Lin, Syst. Nat, 

 Tucana Suriiiamensis niger, ex albo, flavo, rubro mixtus. Tetiv, 



Gaz. t. 44, f 13. 

 Yellow-breasted Toucan. Edw, .pL 32g. Lath, syn. 



This, which measures about nineteen inches in 

 length, is described by Edwards, from a living spe- 

 cimen brought at that time into England. " The 

 bill, says Edwards, is very great in proportion, 

 comrpressed sideways, having a sharp ridge along 

 its upper part, and toothed on its edges : the upper 

 mandible is green, with a long triangular spot of 

 orange-colour on each side, and the ridge on the 

 upper part yellow: the lower mandible is blue, 

 with a shade of green in the middle : the point is 

 red: it hath about five transverse faint dusky bars, 

 which cross the joinings of the two mandibles; the 

 nostrils are invisible, in, the black line that sur- 

 rounds the bill: the iris of the eye is of a fair 

 green colour; round the eye is a broad space 

 of naked skin, of a violet colour: the skin beneath 

 tne feathers is of a violet colour: the throat and 

 breast are of a bright yellow ; below which is a bar 

 of scarlet feathers, which parts the yellow on the 

 breast from the black on the belly: the covert- 



