RAMPHASTOS CARINATUS, Swains. 
Keel-billed Toucan. 
Specific Character. 
Ramph. rostro compressor fascia angustd nigra basali circumdatd , apice sanguineo ; mandibuld 
superiore viridi, culmine maculaque utrinque ciurantio-flavis; gutture pectoreque luteis ; 
uropygio cilbo. 
Crown of the head and back of the neck dull black, with awash of rufous on the latter, varying 
in intensity in different individuals; back, wings, abdomen and tail black, glossed with 
green; upper tail-coverts white; under tail-coverts vivid bloocl-red; cheeks and throat 
yellow, bounded below with a band of scarlet in some specimens and not in others; bill 
green, with a spot of orange-yellow on each side of the upper mandible, and a line of the 
same colour extending along the culmen throughout its whole length ; both mandibles 
bounded at the base with a narrow line of black and tipped with red, and both marked 
with indistinct transverse rays of black ; orbits vercliter-green, passing into yellow on 
their outer margin; immediately behind the hill a small patch of yellow feathers; feet 
blue, with a tinge of lilac on their under surface. 
Total length, 22 inches; bill , 5f; wing, 8f; tail, 7; tarsi, 2t. 
Toucan, or Brazilian Pie, Edw. Glean., vol. ii. p. 64. pi. 64. 
Yellow-breasted Toucan, Jb., vol. iii. p. 253. pi. 329. 
Ramphastos Tucanus, Shaw, Gen. Hist., vol. viii. p. 362. 
- collarhinchus, Wagl. Syst. Av., Ramphastos, sp. 6. 
- pcecilorhynchus, Lieht. in Mus. Berlin. 
- sulfuratus, Less. Traite d’Orn., p. 173. 
- carinatus, Swains. Zool. Ill., vol. i. pi. 45.—Wagl. Syst. Av., Ramphastos, sp. 7. 
■—Gould, Mon. of Ramph., pi. 7-—lb. Sturm’s Edit., pi. 
- piscivorus, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 151.—GmeL Edit., tom. i. p. 355.—Lath. 
Ind. Orn., tom. i. p. 136.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403, Ram¬ 
phastos, sp. 6.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 93, Ramphastos, sp. 9- 
Tucana Brasiliensis gutture albo, Briss. Orn., tom. iv. p. 413.—lb. 8vo, tom ii. p. 158. 
Brazilian Toucan, Lath. Gen. Syn., tom. i. p. 327-—Shaw, Nat. Misc., pi. 183.—lb. Gen. 
Zool., vol. viii. p. 363.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. ii. p. 284. 
There is little doubt in my mind that the characters of Linnseus’ Ramphastos piscivorus were taken from an 
example of this species; it is true that the throat is described as white, which would militate against such 
an opinion ; but it is probable that the whiteness of the throat was due to the bird being out of health or 
to some other cause : if this supposition be correct, it will be said that the term piscicorus ought to be the 
specific appellation adopted ; it is, however, so objectionable, being indicative of a habit not found to exist 
in any species of the family, that I have preferred employing Mr. Swainson’s name, carinatus, so peculiarly 
descriptive of the remarkable form of the bill. I do not know any species of the family which is subject 
