(TOCO TOUCAN.)
+Rhamphastos toco+, _Gould, Mon. Rhamphast._ ed. 2, pl. i.; _Scl. et
Salv. Nomencl._ p. 108; _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 620 (Oran and
Misiones).
_Description._--Above black; rump white, with a small scarlet patch
on each side: beneath black, throat white; crissum scarlet; bill
yellow, with a black blotch at the end of the upper mandible; feet
brown: whole length 22·0 inches, wing 9·5, tail 6·5. _Female_
similar.
_Hab._ Guiana, Amazonia, Brazil, Paraguay, and N. Argentina.
White met with this Toucan among the lofty forest trees at Campo
Colorado, near Oran, where it was found in flocks. In Misiones it
was more abundant, and was said to commit great havoc among the
orange-groves.
Order V. PSITTACI.
Fam. XXIX. PSITTACIDÆ, or PARROTS.
Dr. Finsch's history of the Parrot tribe, published in 1867, included
accounts of about 350 species, to which at least 50 more have been added
during these last twenty years, so that upwards of 400 Parrots are now
known to science. Of these, about 150 belong to the New World, mostly to
the intertropical portion, though Parrots are found as far north as the
U.S., and as far south as Chili and Patagonia.
In the Argentine Republic the presence of ten species of Psittacidæ has
been recorded, but only two of these are found in the vicinity of Buenos
Ayres, the remaining eight being restricted to the more northern and
western portions of the country.