ANDIGENA CUCULLATUS, Gould.
Hooded Hill Toucan.

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And. rostro flavo, nist tertia er 5 :
flavo, rtia parte apicali, et macula obloned utringue ad basin mandibule i
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apicibus “try
. le 7 prebusque tectricum alarum majorum aureo-oleagineis ;
uropygro autem et tectricibus caude superioribus viridi-flavis infectis -
iS S mnfectis.

fervoris, nigris ; dorso, humeris,

Crown of the head and occiput deep glossy black ; at the back of the neck a broad crescenti
é scentic

mark of blue-grey ; back, shoulder ti i
e-9rTey ; back, shoulders and tips of the wing-coverts ¢ ine j
— = | ps of the wing-coverts golden olive, passing into
ereenis ellow o le rump <¢ -r tail-coverts: greate i
e oz? | p and under tail-coverts ; greater wing-coverts, outer webs
of the primaries and secondaries dark gre Ir *
aries dark green, their inner webs brownish black; sides of the
face and throat sooty black eae blending wi ae oe
00t" , gradually blending with the dark bluish grey of the under
surface; under tail-coverts crimson ; thighs chestnut ; bill yellow, clouded with green for
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two-thirds of its length from the base and black for the remainder of its length, the under
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mandible with an oblong irregularly-shaped patch of black on each side near the base ;
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feet greenish lead-colour.

Total length, 18 inches; b2//, 4; wing, 7; tarl, 7+; 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.

 

 

Tuts singular Toucan appears to have escaped the notice of every traveller in Bolivia, except Mr. Bridges ;
d M. D’Orbigny and other French naturalists have collected

which is the more surprising, as the celebrate
ly conceive how so remarkable a bird

extensively in that country :—I say surprising, because one can scarce
Mr. Bridges found it in the forests of Cocapata, in the department of
e of which is now in the British Museum, and
1 the information that is known respecting

in the dense and hairy character of its

could have been unseen by them.
Cochabamba, and brought three specimens to this country, op
the other two in that of the late Earl of Derby. Such, then, is al
this fine Toucan; a Toucan, which differs from all its congeners
plumage, and in the absence of any distinct mark on the rump.

three specimens above-mentioned,
lest of the three, and is doubtless a female.

Much diversity occurs in the size of the but they are precisely similar

in colour: the one in the British Museum is the smal

y
The figures are of the natural size.