ANDIGENA BAILLONI. 
Saffron-coloured Hill Toucan. 
Specific Character. 
And.fronte, genis, gula, corporeque subtus prenter femora croceis ; uropygio coccineo. 
Front and sides of tlie head, cheeks, throat and under-surface saffron-yellow ; upper surface, 
wings, tail, and thighs yellowish olive ; rump crimson; on the sides of the mandibles im¬ 
mediately in front of the orbit a broad mark of red gradually decreasing to a point about 
the middle of the bill; above and below the red mark the mandibles are pale greenish 
blue; their apical halves are greenish horn-colour, fading into white on the serratures; 
orbits red ; irides lemon-yellow ; feet greyish green, with yellowish soles ; nails black. 
Total length, 1 5i inches; bill, 3f ; wing, 54; tail, 74; tarsi, If. 
HAraqari Baillon, Levaill. Hist. Nat. des Ois. de Parad., tom. ii. p. 44. pi. xviii. 
Ramphastos Bailloni, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., tom. xxxiv. p. 283.—lb. Ency. 
M6th. Orn., part iii. p. 1431. 
Pteroglossus Bailloni, Wagl. Syst. Av., Pteroglossus, sp. 7- —Gould, Mon. of Ramph. pi. xx. 
—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403, Pteroglossus, sp. 10.—Bonap. 
Consp. Gen. Av., p. 94, Pteroglossus, sp. 11.—Less. Traite cl’Orn., p. 176, Ptero¬ 
glossus, sp. 7- 
- croceus, Jard. & Selb. Ill. Orn., vol. i. pi. vi. 
Most of the travellers who have seen the members of this family in their native forests speak of the bril¬ 
liancy of the colouring of their soft parts, not only of their orbits, hill and feet, hut of the skin of various 
parts of their bodies, some being red, others blue, &c. As these colours fade immediately after death, the 
ornithologist of distant countries can have no idea, from the condition in which the specimens reach him, 
of the gay and brilliant hues which adorned them while living; and it is with no little study, research and 
trouble, that I have been enabled in this Second Edition to represent the denuded parts of these fine birds 
correctly. In no instance do these colours fade so entirely as in the species here represented; so great 
in fact is the difference of appearance between the living bird and the specimens in our Museums, that 
were we not aware of the changes that take place after death we should be very sceptical as to their being- 
identical. The intensity of the colouring in the living bird also varies, being sometimes much greater than 
at others ; this may be due to the peculiar state of the bird’s health, but it is probable that it is most 
brilliant during the pairing and breeding-season. For a knowledge of the colouring of the soft parts of 
this species I am indebted to the kindness of the late Mr. John Natterer, who, when passing through 
London on his return to Vienna, after a residence of eighteen years in the Brazils, obligingly furnished me 
with drawings and full particulars as to the colouring of this and several other species of the Ramphastidee. 
As this bird is not characterized by the black head and throat and by the transverse bars on the breast, 
which are to be found in all the true Pteroglossi, and as its undersurface is clothed with a hair-like plumage 
of a uniform tint like the members of the genus Ancligena, I have, although it is a lowland species, considered 
its most natural situation to be in that division of the family. Its true habitat is the southern portion of 
Brazil, over which it is rather widely diffused : Mr. Natterer, who killed it on the high trees in the dense 
woods near Antonio Dias, on the 9th of November 1822, states that it was then beginning to moult, that it 
lives in pairs, and that the stomachs of those he examined contained berries. 
Either the sexes differ very considerably in the form of the bill, or there exists two very distinct local 
varieties ; some individuals having the bill narrow and attenuated, while in others it is short, deep and 
swollen. Could I detect any difference whatever in the colouring of the plumage, I should be inclined to 
regard them as two species, but at present must content myself with the remark above made, which will be 
sufficient to call the attention of naturalists and travellers, who may be visiting the native country of the 
bird, to the subject. 
The Plate represents the bird of the natural size. 
