RAMPHASTOS VITELLINUS, in. 
Sulphur and White-breasted Toucan. 
Specific Character. 
Ramph. rostro nigro ; fascia basalt cceruleo postice lined nigra cincta ; pectore aurantiaco-flavo 
in album acl latera et antice transeunte; tectricibus caucloc superioribus et inferioribus 
coccineis. 
General plumage black; breast orange, gradually blending with the white of the cheeks, chin, 
and sides of the neck; across the chest, immediately below the orange, a broad crescentic 
mark of deep blood-reel; the upper and under tail-coverts are also blood-red ; bill black, 
with the exception of a broad band of blue near the base and a stripe of the same hue 
uniting with it on the base of the culraen ; orbits greenish blue ; feet blue. 
Total length, 194 inches ; bill, 4f : wing, 7f; tail, 7 ; tarsi, If. 
Le Pignan-coin, ou Toucan a gorge jaitne, Levaill. Hist. Nat. des Ois. de Farad., tom. ii. 
p. 19. pk 7- 
Ramphastos vitellinus, 111.—Swains. Zool. 111., vol. i. pi. 56. —Licht. Verz. der Doubl., p. 7 . 
No. 22 . —Gould, Mon. of Ramph., pi. 9-—lb. Sturm’s Edit., pi. .—Gray and 
Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403, Rcimphastos, sp. 9-—Bonap. Consp. Gen. 
Av., p. 93, Ramphastos, sp. 11 .—Less. Traite d’Orn., p. 173, Rcimphastos, sp. 12 . 
—Wagl. Syst. Av., Rcimphastos, sp. 12 . 
This fine species, like the Ramphastos Arid, has the upper and under tail-coverts scarlet; and this so 
constant, that in the hundreds of specimens I have seen no indication of a yellow or orange hue has been 
observable : I mention this fact, because the late Mr. John Natterer once obtained a specimen which he 
considered to be referable to this species with the tail-coverts orange, but which I consider to have been 
an accidental variety or a distinct species. The native habitat of this bird is Guiana, Cayenne, I believe the 
Island of Trinidad, and the banks of the Amazon generally. Mr. Natterer also found it on the banks 
of the Rio Branco below the Sierra Caraman under the second degree of north latitude, and still further 
south near Barra on the Rio Negro. Specimens from Guiana are somewhat larger in size, have stronger 
bills, and have the orange colouring of the breast of a deeper tint and more diffused than those from 
the other localities ; they cannot, however, be regarded as distinct, but simply as a local variety. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
