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Crown of the head and back of the neck deep bl

 

the other members of the family, this species
be the females ; if so, they have the
The figures are of the natural size.

 

 

ANDIGENA LAMINIROSTRIS, Gould.

Laminated Hill] Toucan.

SPECIFIC Cuaracrer.

3; culmine et apice nigris ; lateribus laminutis corneis 3 corpore

subtus cinereo-cyaneo.

ack ; upper surface golden brown ; primaries
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; under tail-coyerts
blood-red ; culmen and apical half of both mandibles black ; a broad band on the base of

the upper mandible and the basal half of the lower mandible deep blood-red ; on either
side of the upper mandible, immediately in front of the blood-red base, is a large buft-
coloured plate or lamina, continuous with the structure of the bill posteriorly, but separate
and detached in front, dilated on its upper edge, thicker and projecting beyond the edge

of the mandible below ; feet slaty blue.

Total length, 18 inches; Azl/, 33; wmg, OF; tail, 63; tarsi, 14.

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

 

For our knowledge of this fine new species we are indebted to the researches of M. Jules Bourcier,
who discovered it in the forests at the base of Pichincha, in Ecuador, during his recent official sojourn in
that country. At the time I described the bird in the ‘Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” only 2
single specimen had been sent to Europe, which, having become the property Olas yee te 2
Philadelphia, was kindly lent to me by his brother, E. Wilson, Esq., “0 the purpose of Ean au
describing. Since that time two more specimens have been sent to Paris, and now form part of my own
collection.

It is certainly one of the most extraordinary of t
feature in its laminated bill not found in any other
unknown to us, and we are equally ignorant as to its habits and economy.

he Toucans yet discovered, inasmuch as it possesses a
species 5 the particular use of this lamination, if any, is
Like the 4. Aypoglaucus, and all
differs considerably in size ; probably the smaller birds may

inati i i ‘ta as stronely developed as in the male.
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