3l8 BROOKLYN INSTITUTi; MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
RA.Mr'HASTOS viTELLiNus Liclitenstein. 
Ramphastos vitcllinns Licht., Doiibl. Verz. 1823. p. 7; Berlepsch &• 
Hartert, p. loi. 
Not taken b}' the writer, but recorded from Suapure, La Pricion 
on the Caura River by Berlepsch and Hartert. 
RAMrilASTOS CULMINATUS Gould. 
Ramphastos culminatns ("lOuld, I'. Z. S. 1833. p. 70; Berlepsch & Hartert. 
p. lOI. 
More often seen than either cuvieri inca or osculans. Five speci- 
mens were collected on my first expedition at Munduapo and at Neri- 
cagua. 
The iris is bicolored, having an inner ring of seal brown and an onter 
zone of greenish grey ; bare skin about eye turquoise blue ; bill with a 
narrow band at the extreme base deep black, succeeded by a much 
broader l)and. which on the mandible and one-fourth of the maxilla is 
azure i)hie. the remainder, as also the culmen and tips of both maxilla 
and mandible, is sulijhur }ellow, body of the l)ill. maxilla and mandible 
black ; feet glaucous blue. 
Pteroglossus pluricinctus Gould. 
Ptcrofjiossiis pliiriciiictHS Gould. P. Z. S. 1835. p. 157; Berlepsch & 
Hartert, p. 101. 
Four specimens taken at Munduapo during February. Eye straw 
yellow, bare skin about eye paris green ; bill with a narrow bantl at the 
extreme base of maxilla and mandible ochre yellow, remainder of mand- 
ible black, ma.xilla with a basal band, including a long acute triangular 
area along its basal cutting edge and the culmen black, ti]> pinkish 
vinaceous, body of the maxilla bicolor, the basal part being ochre yellow, 
the anterior part a soiled yellowish white, the two shades blending grad- 
ually into one another in the centre : feet dusky oil green, bare skin on 
sides of tarsi plumbeous. 
Pteroglossus flavirostris flavirostris Fraser. 
Pteroglossus flavirostris Fraser, P. Z. S. 1840. p. 61 ; Berlepsch & 
Hartert. p. loi. 
Probably the most common of the species of toucan seen on the 
Orinoco. 
