INTRODUCTION.
10

\ at to tk ree of tl e spec es f our ed in His Oise aux de | ara dis, 1Z. Ramphastos ] ocard. R A
} Ss = V

Mr. Swainson made us a
Dr. Lichtenstein gave

cquainted with three additional species, Ramphastos ambiguus,
and R. Baillon.
nee Pe ss
Pteroglossus inscriptus and Pt. sulcatus. the names of Pteroglossus prasinus and
terogloss ss

two well-marked species Dr. Latham did not add a single species to the group; unless
wo well-markee : ey

Pt. maculirostris to
Toucan, to which he g
«‘ Cimelia Physica ” is doubt

hen more nearly resemble 2. Toco than any other.

his B ue eared \ n S yecific app llati 0 | { W Ad 1cor
The Ramp astos nal { Mille S ss me } Ore rese t

colours of the under surface were transposed it would t

) in bis ‘* Systema Avium,” published in 1827, added the

Wagler, who gave a monograph of the grou;
following species —Ramphastos Cuviert and Pteroglossus Reinwardti, Langsdorfi and Humboldte. Subse-
5b a 5

quently he published in Oken’s “ Isis” the description of a fifth new species under the name of Pteraglossus

Beauharnaisti. His Ramphastos Le Vaillantii is merely the description of the faded R. erythrorhynchus,

figured by Le Vaillant on his fourth plate ; his Ramphastos callorhynchus 1s identical with the A. carinatus
of Swainson ; his 22. Forsterorum is taken from the fifth plate of Le Vaillant, which is said to be a represen-
tation of a bird made up from A. Ariel and R. Cuvieri; his R. erythrosoma cannot be identified with any
known bird; the characters were taken from Le Vaillant’s sixth plate representing a specimen which had
probably been tampered with by the bird-mounter, a much to be reprehended, though not unfrequent

practice ; lastly, his Prerog/ossus Poéppigi is identical with his Pe. Beauharnaisu.

Both Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte and Mr. G. R. Gray consider the Ramphastos maximus of Cuvier
to be identical with the R. erythrosoma of Wagler, which, as above stated, has been founded upon a

made-up specimen.

Mr. Vigors, who comm ; eo
Mr. s ommence r ; : 3 4
gors, da monograph of the family in the ‘ Zoological Journal,” but did not live

to complete it, named two others, Ramphastos Ariel and Pteroglossus bitorquatus

a . S d ou the che % ‘S i 5 is rus

Pt. Azare for which I had mistaken it.

l Qo my absence l \usti [ Wa ernouse S rit 1 e new species as l Zé 0g t0Ss 8
Dur ng avd Sal alla \ I c Ss

ost as, the DIT d aimos S 20
Ss simul c isly > z e 2

Sturm of Nuremberg.

M. Natterer, w :
Ni. J , Who has furnish i
ed us with so much valuable information res ‘neo this group, named
a respecting this group,

two eS 1es er 0,2"
new species Pteroglossus Gouldi and Pt Sturmi