T A B. LVII.
RAMPHASTOS INDICUS.
Rojirum maximum,
curva.
Nares pone rollri bafm.
Lingua pennacea.
Pedes fcanforii plerlfque.
CHARACTER GENERICUS.
inane, convexum, extrorfum ferratimi : manclibula iitraque apice in-
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Ramphaftos gula remigibus caudaque nigris, genis peftoreque albis, abdomine femoribufque
luteis, vertice rubro-aurantio, uropygio phoeniceo.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Bill exceíTively large, convex, bending towards the tip, light, hollow, ferrated.
Tongue long, narrow, feathered on the edges.
Feet formed for climbing.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Toucan, with the throat, wing-feathers, and tail, black, the cheeks and brcaft white, the abdomen
and thighs yellow, the crown reddiih-orange, the rump crimfon.
THE Toucans in general are natives of the new world, and have hitherto been difcovered in
no part of the old continent. The prefent fpecies however (if we may rely on the atteftation
accompanying the Ijiecimen when firil received) is an Indian bird. It may be proper to ob-
Jtam/daJoo.- f>n//'/ia. If
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