YELLOW-BREASTED TOUCAN. 
and not that of Cayenne, is the bird described 
by Edwards. BuiFon, indeed, under the title of 
the Yellow-Throated Toucan, describes not 
only both these birds, but three other kinds 
also, and insists that they are all but a single 
species. 
" It is from this species of Toucan, " says 
he, * ' that those brilliant feathers used as. or- 
naments are obtained: all the yellow part 
is cut off from the skin, and sold at a high 
price. The Males, only, furnish these fihe 
yellow feathers ; for the throat of the Fe- 
males is white : and this distinction has misled 
the nomenclators ; who have regarded the 
Male and Female as of different species; and 
finding some variation of colours in both, 
have even gone so far as to make each include 
two separate species. But we reduce these 
four pretended species to one; and we may 
also join a fifth, mentioned by Laet, in his 
History of the New World, which differs 
only in the white colour of it's breast." 
The Toucans thus united by Buffon, in one 
single description, are the Ramphastos Dico- 
lorus 5 
