RED-BEAKED TOUCAN^ 
The figure which we have copied, was ori- 
ginallv drawn by Edwards, from a preserved 
specimen of the real bird, of which the bill, 
riead, body, and wings, were perfect, but the tail 
and legs were wanting. " On comparing it,^* 
says he, with the drawings of Surinam birds, 
bv Anna-Maria Marian, in the Museum of 
the late Sir Hans Sloane, I found a draught of 
it as big as life, which agreed exactly with the 
remains of the dried bird, and enabled rae to 
compleat mv figure.'* 
Tt is evidentlv to this species of the Toucan 
that M. De la "Cdndamine refers, when he 
speaks, in his Voyage a la Riviere des Ama- 
zones, of a Toucan whicli he saw on the 
banks of the Maragnon, whose monstrous bill 
was red and yellow j and it'"s tongue,, which 
resembled a fine feather, esteemed by the In- 
dians to have great medicinal virtues. BufFon 
is of opinion, that Edwards'^s Toucan, or Bra- 
silian Pve^ and his Red- Beaked Toucan,, are 
only male and female of the same species. An 
error in which he also implicates IJnuaeus and 
Gmelin, as well as Brisson, Fernandez, and 
Nierembersr. 
