YELLOW-BREASTED TOUCAN. 
Edwards, whose figure we have, adopted 
with the name of this bird, has thus described 
" The bill is very great in proportion, com- 
pressed sideways, having a sharp ridge along 
its upper part, and toothed on it's edges. The 
upper mandible is green; with a long trian- 
gular 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 has about five 
transverse faint dusky bars, which cross the 
joinings of the two mandibles: the nostrils are 
invisible, in the black line that surrounds the 
bill. The iris of the eye is of a fair green co- 
lour. Round the eye is a broad space of naked 
skin of a violet colour; the skin beneath the 
feathers is also 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-feathers of the tail are 
white 
