RAMPHASTOS INCA, Gould . 
Inca Toucan. 
Specific Character. 
Ramph. rostro nigro, in lateribus sangiiineo obnubilato; culmine mandibidce superioris ad 
apicem, et lata fascia basali fl'avis, hac postice lined nigra, ant ice lined coccinea cincta; 
gidd et pectore albis favicinctis, hoc torque sangiiineo infra succincto; tectricibus caudce 
superioribus auraniiacis. 
General plumage black; throat and chest white tinged with yellow, and bounded below by a 
band of blood-red; upper tail-coverts rich orange; under tail-coverts bloocl-red; bill black, 
with a patch of pale blood-red on the sides of the upper mandible near the base, with the 
culmen and point of the lower mandible yellow, and with a broad basal belt of the same 
colour, bounded posteriorly with a narrow line of black, and anteriorly with a narrow line 
of scarlet, the yellow clouded with olive-blue on the lower and the cutting edge of the 
upper mandible; orbits yellow, passing into yellow on their outer margins; irides brown ; 
legs and feet bluish lead-colour. 
Total length, 20 inches; bill, 5b; wing, 94; tail, 7 ; tarsi, 24- 
Ramphastos Inca, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part XIV. p. 68.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of 
Birds, vol. iii. App. p. 19 (App. to p. 403).—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 92, 
Ramphastos, sp. 2. 
For a knowledge of this species we are indebted to Mr. Bridges, who brought a single specimen from 
Bolivia. It is nearly allied to R. erythrorhynchus , but differs from that species in having the greater part of 
the mandibles black; a mark of scarlet, almost triangular in form, occupying a small space on each side of 
the culmen only; and in having a faint line of scarlet posterior to the black colouring, which does not 
occur at all in the other species: the blood-red band on the breast, too, is broader and deeper coloured, 
and the white of the throat is more strongly tinged with yellow. A still greater distinction is, however, 
observable in the colouring of the upper tail-coverts, which in R. Inca are of a rich fiery orange, while in 
R. erythrorhynchus they are lemon-yellow. From all appearances, it is probable that the specimen brought 
by Mr. Bridges is a female ; and if that be the case, the male, when discovered, will prove to be one of 
the most rich coloured species of the genus. 
Mr. Bridges’s specimen was procured in the elevated and dense forests at Chimoree in the country of the 
Yuracaras Indians in Bolivia; beyond this, I regret to say, nothing is known respecting it. 
The figure is of the natural size. 
