EAEPHâSTOS C1TKEOIÆMUS» GouM.
RAMPHASTOS CITREOLÆMUS, Gouid.
Citron-breasted Toucan.
S p e c i f i c C h a r a c t e r .
Ramph. rostro nigro, v illa la ta basalt, el culmine olioaceo oiridibus, hoc colore gradatim cum
jh x id o apudapicem mandibulce utrius'que se commiscente; g u la a lb a ; pectore citreo, m tta
splendide coccined cin cto ; tectricibus caudto superioribus citreis.
General plumage black; throat and chest white, the latter washed with citron-yellow, which is
deepest in the centre, whence it gradually fades into the white of the sides of the neck
and throat; across the lower part of the breast a band of deep blood-red; upper tail-
coverts sulphur-yellow; under tail-coverts deep blood-red, curving upwards at the sides
and meeting at the base of the upper tail-coverts, inducing at first sight a belief that the
upper tail-coverts are of two colours, blood-red and sulphur-yellow; bill black, with a
broad basal and culmenal band of greenish yellow passing into pale yellow on the tips of
both mandibles, and deepening into orange at the gape.
T o ta l len g th , 21 iw h e s ; bill, 5 k ; wing, 8 k ; tail, 7 k ; tarsi, lk.
Ramphastos citreolcemus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part X I. p. 147— Gray and Mitch.
Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 403, Ramphastos, sp. 15.
— citreolaimm, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av„ p. 92, Ramphastos, sp. 7-
, examination of the Prince of Massena's collection at Paris in 1843 afforded me an opportunity of giving
description of a species of Toucan I had never before seen. The only information I could obtain respect-
i this new bird, of which His Highness possessed a male and a female, was that it had been received Li,ectioTfrom Santa Fe de Bogota in Colombia. In the interval that has since elapsed, the Prince s fine
ollection has been transported to North America, and now finds a resting-place in the
f the Academy of Sciences at Philadelphia. Being desirous of instituting a more rigid examinationi of'the
ecies and a more eareful comparison of it with the allied members of the fan,, y than was enabled o
0 when it first came under m, notice, I applied to T. B. Wilson, Esq. of ¡ 8 0 1 anotl,cr s« '
1 it and he has, with the utmost liberality, allowed it again to cross the Atlantic for this purpose.
e inspecting it, 1 find that the conclusion I originally came to, as to its being a distinct species, is quite
orrect ifbelongs to that section of the family, members of which are distinguished by broad culmeoa
narks 1 feature more conspicuous in this than in any other species, the greenish yellow colour not be ng
onfiLd to the culmen alone, but occupying a considerable portion of the sides of the upper mandible also.
1 ,ower part of the breast is fine sulphur-yellow, passing into white on the throat and sides of the
h e rump is fine sulphur-yellow, instead of passing into orange, as in R. Corner,, R . colm,mt«s oni R . oscu-
P g j H thick and swollen, as in the la tte r; but it is shorter, and on comparison will be found to
i different aspect.