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BRASILIAN TOUCAN. 



transversly barred with black or dusky lines, which 

 pass through the divisions of the bill a little way 

 into the sides of the lower mandible: the lower 

 mandible is of an exceeding fine blue colour, faint 

 towards the head, stronger towards the point: the 

 point itself, of both upper and lower mandible, for 

 above an inch depth, is of a fine scarlet colour : the 

 bill is very much compressed sideways, and ends in 

 a perfect edge along its upper part: the edge of 

 the lower mandible is somewhat less ridged: the 

 bill is bowed tovyards the point, and has a large 

 cavity above the roof of the mouth: the nostrils 

 are invisible, being situated pretty near together 

 in the upper part of the bill^ just in the line 

 which passes between the bill and the forehead : 

 the eyes are of a dark hazel-colour, encompassed 

 round with a bare skin of a greenish yellow colour, 

 having seams or creases running in a broken man- 

 ner round the eye, and, reaching to the bill, there 

 passes all round the basis of it a narrow black line: 

 the top of the head, upper side of the neck, back, 

 wings, belly, thighs, and tail, are of a black colour, 

 the wings only having a shining changeable lustre: 

 the sides of the head, throat, and breast, are white, 

 or rather cream-colour; and between the white 

 on the breast and the black belly, there is a cres- 

 cent of fine red, whose horns point upwards on the 

 sides, and this is softened both above and beneath 

 into the colours it joins with : the rump, or coverts- 

 on the upper side of the tail, are white: the fea- 

 thers beyond the vent, and those that cover the 

 under side of the tail, are of a pale red: the 



