RED-BREASTED TOUCAN. 365 



legs, feet, and claws are of a light blue or violet 

 colour." 



Edwards adds, that, after death, the colours of 

 the bill were totally lost or obscured, and the bare 

 space round the eyes turned black. 



This bird is a native of Brasil, and is, in all pro- 

 bability, no other than the female of the imme- 

 diately preceding, from which it differs in having 

 the breast cream-colour instead of yellow. » 



RED-BREASTED TOUCAN. 



Ramphastos pectoralis, R. niger, collo antice luteOj fascia lata 



pectorali crisso uropygioque rubris. 

 Black Toucan, with the fore-part of the neck yellow, a broad, 



red pectoral band, and red vent and rump. 

 Ramphastos Tucanus? il. nigricans , fascia abdominali, crisso, 



uropygioque fiavis. Lin, Syst, Nat, 

 Ramphastos dicolorus? R, nigricans, pectore abdomine crisso 



uropygioque rubris, Lin. Syst. Nat, 

 Toucan a gorge jaune. Buff". 7* P- ^l^- 

 Toucan a gorge jaune du Bresil. Buf.. J. p, lip. 

 Toucan a gorge jaune de Cayenne. 1 ^^^^ 

 Toucan a gorge jaune du Bresil. ^ 

 Yellow-throated Toucan. | 

 Yellow-breasted Toucan. ) 



Length about eighteen inches: colour black, 

 with a gloss or cast of green: cheeks, throat, and 

 fore-part of the breast, in some sulphur-yellow, in 

 others orange-yellow: across the lower part of the 

 breast a broad crimson bar, sometimes extending 

 nearly to the thighs, and sometimes falling far 

 short of those parts j according to ^which variation 



