ANDIGENA CUCULLATUS, Gould. 
Hooded Hill Toucan. 
Specific Character. 
And. rostrofavo, nisi tertia parte apicali, et macula oblongd utrinque ad basin mandibidce in¬ 
ferior is, nigris; dor so, burner is, apicibusque tectricum alarum major urn, aureo-oleagineis; 
uropygio autem et tectricibus caudce superiorihus viridi-Jlavis infectis. 
Crown of the head and occiput deep glossy black; at the back of the neck a broad crescentic 
mark of blue-grey ; back, shoulders and tips of the wing-coverts golden olive, passing into 
the greenish yellow of the rump and under tail-coverts; greater wing-coverts, outer webs 
of the primaries and secondaries dark green, their inner webs brownish black; sides of the 
face and throat sooty black, gradually blending with the dark bluish grey of the under 
surface; under tail-coverts crimson ; thighs chestnut; bill yellow, clouded with green for 
two-thirds of its length from the base and black for the remainder of its length, the under 
mandible with an oblong irregularly-shaped patch of black on each side near the base; 
feet greenish lead-colour. 
Total length, 18 inches; bill, 4; wing, 7; tail, 74; tarsi, 2. 
Pteroglossus cucullatus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part XIV. p. 69.—Gray and Mitch. 
Gen. of Birds, vol. iii. App. p. 19 (App. to p. 404).—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., 
p. 95, Pteroglossus, sp. 18. 
This singular Toucan appears to have escaped the notice of every traveller in Bolivia, except Mr. Bridges; 
which is the more surprising, as the celebrated M. D’Orbigny and other French naturalists have collected 
extensively in that country :—I say surprising, because one can scarcely conceive how so remarkable a bird 
could have been unseen by them. Mr. Bridges found it in the forests of Cocapata, in the department of 
Cochabamba, and brought three specimens to this country, one of which is now in the British Museum, and 
the other two in that of the late Earl of Derby. Such, then, is all the information that is known respecting 
this fine Toucan ; a Toucan, which differs from all its congeners in the dense and hairy character of its 
plumage, and in the absence of any distinct mark on the rump. 
Much diversity occurs in the size of the three specimens above-mentioned, but they are precisely similar 
in colour: the one in the British Museum is the smallest of the three, and is doubtless a female. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
