RAMPHASTOS ERYTHRORHYNCHUS. 
Red-billed Toucan. 
Specific Character. 
rostro rubro, vittd J'ascidque basali Jlavis, liac j)ostice lined antice J'ascid nigris cinctd ; 
tomiis nigris : niger ; jugulo pectoreque albis lutescenti tinctis ; torque pectorali angustd 
caudoeque tectricibus infeiiorihus coccineis, superioribus saturate Jlavis. 
Beak red at the sides, with a broad line of yellow continued throughout its entire length, and 
a basal belt of the same colour, bounded posteriorly by a narrow line of black and 
anteriorly by a broader one of the same colour; a black line runs along the edges of both 
mandibles; naked skin round tbe eye; the legs and the feet blueish lead colour; general 
plumage black; the throat and chest white, with a tinge of greenish straw yellow, bounded 
by a narrow pectoral band of scarlet, the under tail-coverts being of the same colour, while 
the upper ones are deep yellow. 
Total length, 23 inches ; bill, ; wings, 8i; tail, 6i; tarsi, 2. 
Red-beaked Toucan. Edw., t. 238. 
Ramphastos erythrorhynchus. Auct. 
Le Toucan. Levaill., Ois. de Parad., vol. 2. t. 3. 
Le Toucan d collier jaunel Levaill., Ois. de Parad., vol. 2t. 4. 
Toucan d gorge blanche de Cayenne, appelle Tocan. Buff., PI. Enl.,n. 262. 
Ramphastos Levaillantii'l Wagler, Syst. Avium. 
The present species, as its name implies, is distinguished by the brilliant colouring of its beak, which loses its 
original brightness immediately after death, so that the specimens exhibited in our museums might often be 
mistaken, upon a superficial glance, for other species. In one respect it is subject to slight variety in its 
colouring, as we do not find in all s])ecimens the delicate straw-coloured tinge on the white breast, which is 
in all probability the index of a recent change of plumage, and which perhaps disappears after a short 
exposure to the action of light and heat. 
Richly ornamented with well contrasted hues of great brilliancy, this elegant species inhabits the deep 
forests which border the Amazon, and the wooded districts of Cayenne and Guiana, being spread in 
considerable abundance over a wide extent of country. In its general habits and manners it resembles the 
rest of its congeners, leaping lightly from branch to branch among the topmost foliage of the highest trees, 
where it passes its existence. 
