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top, and reddish on the sides, with a line of black 

 separating the two colours; lower mandible black ; 

 with reddish or yellowish base : head and neck 

 deep black: back, wings, and tail, dull or blackish- 

 green, the larger quill-feathers and tail being 

 nearly black : breast, belly, and vent-feathers pale 

 yellow: rump red: tail slightly lengthened, and 

 cuneated : legs and feet grey. In the female the 

 head and neck are chesnut instead of black : na- 

 tive of Cayenne. 



ARACARI TOUCAN. 



Ramphastos Aracari. R, nigro-virescensj abdomine Jlavo, fascia 

 abdominali media uropygioque ruhris, cauda cuneata. 



Blackish-green Toucan, with yellow abdomen^ red middle abdo- 

 minal bar and rmnp, and cuneated tail. 



Ramphastos Aracari. R, viridis, fascia abdominali, crisso uro' 

 pygioque rubris, abdomine flavo, Lin. Syst. Nat, 



Aracari. Marcgr. Bras. Will, orn, Ray. syn. 



Le Grigri. Buff. ois. 



Toucan verd du Bresil. PZ. Enl i66. 



Aracari Toucan. Lath. syn. 



Total length near seventeen inches : of the 

 bill about four inches : upper mandible white, 

 marked along the top by a longitudinal black 

 stripe: lower mandible black: head and neck 

 deep black, with a chesnut-coloured spot behind 

 each ear : back, wings, and tail dull green: breast, 

 belly, and sides pale yellow, the upper part of the 

 breast reddish, and across the middle of the belly 



