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‘The Toucan, or Brasilian P 
Y E. 
theBignefs of a common tame Pigeon, /haped pretty much 
® but its Head larger, the better to fuftain the Great- 
Length ** *'“^ber fliort than long, compofed of Feathers of -equal 
TV Bill, from the Forehead, or the Angles of the Mouth, to the Point is liv 
Inches long ; Its Height, or Depth, where deepeft, is fomething more than two In- 
ches ; from Side to Side, near the Head, one Inch thick : The upper Mandible is of a 
pale yellow greenill, Colour; the Sides near the toothed Edges have each a lon^ 
Cloud of Orange-Colour, tranfverny barr’d with black, or dulky Lines, which paft 
thro the Divifions of the Bill a little Way into the 'Sides of the lower Mandihle • ^he- 
lower Mandible is of an exceeding fine Blue Colour, faint towards the Head, ftron<rer 
towards the Point; the Point itfelf,, of both upper and lower Mandible, for above'an. 
Inch Depth, is of a fine Scarlet Colour ; the Bill is very much comprefled fide-wavs 
and ends in a perfeft Edge along its upper Part ; the Edge of the lower Mandible is' 
fomething lefs udged ; the Bill is bowed towards the Point, as is expreffed, and has a laro-c 
Cavity above the Roof of the Mouth; the Noftrils are invifible, being fituated' 
fsfl-rTf'p '■ 'I Line which paffes between, 
the Bill and the Forehead : The Eyes are of a dark Hazel-Colour, encompafled round' 
with a bare Skin of a greenilh Yellow Colour, having Seams or Creafes running in a 
broken Manner round the Eye, and reaching to the Bill, there paffes all round the Bafis- 
^ Line: The Top of the Head, upper Side of the Neck Back ’ ' 
Wings, Belly, Thighs, and Tail, are of a Black Colour, the Wings only having a 
lliining changsable Luftre; the Sides of the Head, Throat, and Breaft, are White^or 
rathw Cream-Cofour ; and between the White on the Breaft, and the black Belly there- 
IS a Crefeentbf fine Red, whofe Horns point upwards on the Sides, and this is foftened 
both above and beneath into the Colours it joins with : The Rump, or Coverts on the- 
upper Side of the Tail, are White ; the Feathers beyond the Vent, and thofe that co 
^4! pale. Red the-Legs, Feet and Claws, are of a' 
e-ichFoot’ '^'° ‘^‘Lolour; It perches with two Toes forward,, and two behind, ini 
This Bird I met with by good Fortune alive at Mr. Concanen's, the King’s Attor- 
ney-General for the Ifland of "Jamaica, from which Place he brought it toEmland-- 
It came from feme Part of the. Spanijh Main Land. By the Deferiptions and Figure^ 
extant of thefe Birds, I imagine there are many Species of them, feeing they fo rnuch- 
differ t I have alfo feen Variety of their Bills in Colleaions, fome longe? by two Inches 
Vf otherwife marked, and others of a ftiinino-- 
Black Colour. Since none, who have deferibed this Bird, pretend to have feen it a- 
hv^ and.moft of the Accounts we have are Colleiftions and Tranflations from foreign- 
Sr*"' Voyagers; and I having had an Opportunity to draw this Bird, whilft- 
r-'icT and in Health, as -well as examining it particularly after it died, I hope this 
I Jguie.and Defcription, having nothing borrowed in it,, will give at leaflto my^Goun 
-?m™ .„ore p,rf=aide. and Knowledge of i, than .hey hfve hitherto ha7 Afc - 
