BLACK-BILLED GAPER. 
Cynibirhynckus nasutus , Vigos s. 
PLATE XXIX. 
Tipper parts, with the chin and pectoral collar, black ; be- 
neath, dark red ; scapulars narrow and white. 
Tod us nasutus, Latham , Index Orn. i. p. 268 ; Gmelin , i. p. 
446. — Great-billed Tody, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. 664, pi. 30, 
(fig. pass.); Gen. Hist . iv. 94, pi. 45, (fie. med.) — Cymbir- 
hynchus nasutus, Vigors Eurylaimus nasutus, Tern. PI. 
Col. 154. — Erolla nasica, Lesson. Tr. d'Om. 260. 
Under tlie name of Todus nasutus, this remark- 
able bird, although by no means frequent in our 
collections, was well known to the old ornitholo- 
gists, as will appear from the various synonymes we 
can, in this instance at least, quote with safety. 
As it is at present the only representative of its 
genus, there is no occasion to go . into a particular 
account of its structure. We may observe, how- 
ever, that the deep red feathers of the throat and 
breast, like those of some of this group, are pre- 
cisely of the same rigid and glossy structure as 
those on the throat of Querula rubricollis ; and 
