ANDIGENA CUCULLATUS, Gould.
Hooded Hill Toucan.

Specrric CHaracter.

And. rostro flavo, nisi tertid parte apical, et macula oblonga

utringue ad basin mandibule in-
Servoris, nigris ; dorso, humeris,

apicibusque tectricum alarum majorum aureo-oleagineis ;
uropygio autem et tectricebus caudce superioribus viridi-flavis infectis.

Crown of the head and occiput deep glossy black; at the back of the neck a broad crescentic

mark of blue-grey ; back, shoulders and tips of the wing-coverts golden olive, passing into
the greenish yellow of the rump and under tail-coverts ; greater wing-coverts, outer webs
of the primaries and secondaries dark green, their inner webs brownish black; sides of the
face and throat sooty black, gradually blending with the dark bluish grey of the under
surface; under tail-coverts crimson ; thighs chestnut ;_ bill yellow, clouded with green for
two-thirds of its length from the base and black for the remainder of its length, the under
mandible with an oblong irregularly-shaped patch of black on each side near the base ;
feet greenish lead-colour.
Total length, 18 inches; dz//, 4; wing, 7; tail, 7+; tarse, 2.
Pteroglossus cucullatus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part XIV. p. 69.—Gray and Mitch.
Gen. of Birds, vol. iti. App. p. 19 (App. to p. 404)—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av.,

p. 95, Pteroglossus, sp. 18.

 

: Pee ea aa ae , Mr. Bridges:
Tuts singular Toucan appears to have escaped the notice of every traveller in Bolivia, except Mr a ge 7
which is the more surprising, as the celebrated M. D’Orbigny and other French naturalists have co a
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extensively in that country :—I say surprising, because one can scarcely conceive how so remarkable a bit

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could have been unseen by them. Mr. Bridges found it in the forests of Cocapata, in the department

i : hich i 7] ‘itish Museum, and
speci S -y. ope of which is now in the British :

Cochabamba, and brought three specimens to this country, ae eee
70 1 ate Earl of Derby. Such, then, is all the information that 1s known res] g

the other two in that of the late Earl of Derby. ,
this fine Toucan; a Toucan, which differs from al
plumage, and in the absence of any distinct mark on the rump. . dct

Much diversity occurs in the size of the three specimens above-mentioned, bu y are | sel}

: P is btless a female.
in colour: the one in the British Museum is the smallest of the three, and is doubtles

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| its congeners in the dense and hairy character of

The figures are of the natural size.

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