ANDIGENA LAMINIROSTRIS,

Laminated Hil] Toucan.

  

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

And. rostro ad basin coccineo :

subtus cinereo-cyaneo.

blood-red ; culmen and apical half of both mandibles black ; a broad b
the upper mandible and the basal half of the lower mandible deep bl
side of the upper mandible, immediately

coloured plate or lamina, continuous with

of the mandible below ; feet sl

bill, 33

aty blue.

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Total length, 18 inches ; wing, 62; tail, 6%; tarsi, 12.

Andigena laminirostris, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc., 1850, p. 93.

 

 

For our knowledge of this fine new species we are indebted to the researc
who discovered it fi the forests at the base of Pichincha, in Ecuador, during his rec
that country. At the time I described the bird in the «Proceedings of the Zoolc
single specimen had been sent to Europe, which, having be
her, E. Wilson, Esq., for

Philadelphia, was kindly lent to me by his brot |
Paris, and now

describing. Since that time two more specimens have been sent to
collection.

It is certainly one of the most extraordinary of t
feature in its laminated bill not found in any other species ;
as to its habits and economy.

he Toucans yet ¢

unknown to us, and we are equally ignorant
the other members of the family, this species differs consid
be the females ; if so, they have the lamination of the bill quite

The figures are of the natural size.

erably in size; probably

as strongly developed

 

3; culmine et apice negris ; lateribus laminutis cornets 3 corpore

Crown of the head and back of the neck deep black ; upper surface golden brown ;
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brownish black ; rump pale greenish yellow ; upper tail-coverts very dark green; tail dark
slaty grey, four central feathers largely tipped with chestnut-red ; under surface ashy blue;

on either flank a large patch of rich yellow; thighs deep chestnut ;

in front of the blood-red base, is a large bufi-
the structure of the bill posteriorly, but separate

and detached in front, dilated on its upper edge, thicker and projecting beyond the edge

hes of M. Jules Bourcier,

come the property of T. B. Wilson, Esq., of

the pur

liscovered, inasmuch as it possesses a
; the particular use of this lamination, if any,
Like the 2

 
  

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primaries

     
   
  
   
  
  
  
    
   
    
     
    
 

under tail-coverts
and on the base of

ood-red ; on either

ent official sojourn in

ygical Society,” only a

pose of figuring and
form part of my own

is
4. hypogtaucus, and all
the smaller birds may

as in the male.