RAMPHASTOS INCA, Gouda.

Inca Toucan.
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SpEcIFIc CHaRAcTER.

| Ramph. rostro negro, im lateribus sanguineo obnubilato; culmine mandibule supervoris ad

) apicem, et lata fascia basali flavis, hac postice lined nord,
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anticé lined coccinea cincta ;
gula et pectore albis

flavicinctis, hoc torque sanguineo wnfra succincto ;

tectricibus caudce
superioribus aurantiacis.

General plumage black ; throat and chest white tinged with yellow, and bounded below by a
band of blood-red ; upper tail-coverts rich orange ; under tail-coverts blood-red ; bill black,

 

with a patch of pale blood-red on the sides of the upper mandible near the base, with the

culmen and point of the lower mandible yellow, and with a broad basal belt of the same

colour, bounded posteriorly with a narrow line of black, and anteriorly with a narrow line

of scarlet, the yellow clouded with olive-blue on the lower and the cutting edge of the

upper mandible; orbits yellow, passing into yellow on their outer margins ; irides brown ;
legs and feet bluish lead-colour.

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Ramphastos Inca, Gould in Proce. of Zool. Soc., Part XIV. p. 68.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of
Birds, vol. iii. App. p. 19 (App. to p. 403).—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 92,

Total length, 20 inches; J7i/, 5+; wing, 93; taal, 73 tarsi, 24
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For a knowledge of this species we are indebted to Mr. Bridges, who brought a single specimen from
Bolivia. It is nearly allied to R. erythrorhynchus, but differs from that species in having the greater part of
the mandibles black ; a mark of scarlet, almost triangular in form, occupying a small space on each side of
the culmen only; and in having a faint line of scarlet posterior to the black colouring, which does not
occur at all in the other species: the blood-red band on the breast, too, is broader and deeper coloured,
and the white of the throat is more strongly tinged with yellow. A still greater distinction is, however,
observable in the colouring of the upper tail-coverts, which in R. Jnca are of a rich fiery orange, while in
R. erythrorhynchus they are lemon-yellow. From all appearances, it is probable that the specimen brought
by Mr. Bridges is a female ; and if that be the case, the male, when discovered, will prove to be one of
the most rich coloured species of the genus. he

Mr. Bridges’s specimen was procured in the elevated and dense forests at Chimoree in the country of the
Yuracaras Indians in Bolivia ; beyond this, I regret to say, nothing is known respecting it.

The figure is of the natural size.

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