RAMPHASTOS CARI NATUS, Swains.
Keel-billed Toucan.

Sprciric CHARACTER.

Ramph. rostro compresso, fascia angusta nigra basah circumdata, apice sanguineo ; mandibula
supertore viridi, culmine maculaque utringue aurantio-flavis ; gutture pectoreque luters ;

uropygio albo.

Crown of the head and back of the neck dull black, with a wash of rufous on the latter, varying
in intensity in different individuals; back, wings, abdomen and tail black, glossed with
green; upper tail-coverts white; under tail-coverts vivid blood-red; cheeks and throat
yellow, bounded below with a band of scarlet in some specimens and not in others ; bill
green, with a spot of orange-yellow on each side of the upper mandible, and a line of the
same colour extending along the culmen throughout its whole length; both mandibles
bounded at the base with a narrow line of black and tipped with red, and both marked
with indistinct transverse rays of black ; orbits verditer-green, passing into yellow on
their outer margin; immediately behind the bill a small patch of yellow feathers ; feet
blue, with a tinge of lilac on their under surface.

Total length, 22 mches; bzll, 5; wing, 82; taal, 7; tarsz, 23.

Toucan, or Brazilian Pie, Edw. Glean., vol. ii. p. 64. pl. 64.
Yellow-breasted Toucan, th., vol. iii. p. 253. pl. 329.
Ramphastos Tucanus, Shaw, Gen. Hist., vol. viii. p. 362.
———— callorhinchus, Wag}. Syst. Av., Ramphastos, sp. 6.

peeilorhynchus, Licht. in Mus. Berlin.

 

sulfuratus, Less. Traité d’Orn., p. 173.
carinatus, Swains. Zool. [l., vol. i. pl. 45.—Wagl. Syst. Av., Ramphastos, sp. 7.
—Gould, Mon. of Ramph., pl. 7.—Ib. Sturm’s Edit., pl.

Gmel. Edit., tom. 1. p. 355.—Lath.

 

——_— piscworus, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 151.
Ind. Orn., tom. i. p. 136.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403, Ram-
phastos, sp. 6.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 93, Ramphastos, sp. 9.

Tucana Brasiliensis gutture albo, Briss. Orn., tom. iv. p. 413.—Ib. 8vo, tom ii. poe:

Brazihan Toucan, Lath. Gen. Syn., tom. i. p. 327.—Shaw, Nat. Misc., pl. 183.—Ib. Gen.
Zool., vol. viii. p. 363.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. i. p. 284.

 

 

Tuere is little doubt in my mind that the characters of Linneus’ Ramphastos piscivorus were taken from an
example of this species; it is true that the throat is described as white, which would militate against such
an opipion ; but it is probable that the whiteness of the throat was due to the bird being out of health or
to some other cause: if this supposition be correct, it will be said that the term peservorus ought to be the
specific appellation adopted ; it is, however, so objectionable, being indicative of a habit not found to exist
in any species of the family, that I have preferred employing Mr. Swainson’s name, carinatus, so peculiarly
descriptive of the remarkable form of the bill. I do not know any species of the family which is subject