Some species of Toucans have been seen quarrelling with monkeys over a nest of eggs.
Toucans utter, from time to time, harsh, clattering, and discordant cries.
The Toucans may be said to represent in America the Hornbills in India and Africa.
The toucan will chatter horribly in native freedom, but that is only when many hundreds of other toucans are present to keep it in countenance; for the toucan's voice is not pretty, and he knows it.
The toucansdo something very much like this--minus the fighting, because the prize is mutual admiration.
While I was speaking Domingos appeared at the door, with his baskets loaded with fruit, vegetables, and birds--chiefly parrots and toucans of gay plumage.
As soon as we had finished our roasted toucans and parrots, we set forth with our new allies in search of suitable trees for the shells of the boats.
Till within these few years no idea of the true colours of the bill could be formed from the stuffed toucans brought to Europe.
There are three species of toucans in Demerara, and three diminutives, which may be called toucanets.
From time to time soared above the trees flocks of parrots, gray, green, white, or a small bevy of gaudily plumaged toucans in a quiet, wavy flight.
Over the little travelers' heads continually flew from one brink of the ravine to the other toucans with purple heads, blue breasts and yellow wings; so the boy began to tell Nell what he knew from books about their habits.
Parrots and toucansare the most characteristic groups.
Nearly the only game a hunter can depend upon for food, besides toucans and macaws, is peccari.
In the Owls the fourth toe can be directed backwards as well as the hallux, while in Parrots, Cuckoos, Woodpeckers, and Toucans the fourth toe is permanently reversed.
In some Parrots, Owls and Toucans they do not meet one another ventrally.
This leads me to remark that it is not incredible that toucans may owe the enormous size of their beaks to sexual selection, for the sake of displaying the diversified and vivid stripes of colour, with which these organs are ornamented.
Some of the Common Toucans also have handsome markings about the throat; but the enormous beak is their principal characteristic, and it is much the same in all the different members of the family.
Shaw under the name of the Crimson Hornbill, which Mr. Swainson thinks may prove to be a link between Toucans and Hornbills, and thus combine the beauty of plumage of the former with the peculiarity of form of the latter.
This curious instrument so struck the Naturalists of Brazil, where many Toucans are found, that it furnished them with a name.
Toucans feed on fruits and insects; they live in bands of from six to ten in damp places where the palm tree flourishes, for its fruit is their favorite food.
This group is divided into the Common Toucans and the Aracaris.
Some travvellers also related fabulous stories of Toucans resorting to the banks of rivers to feed on fish, and these accounts also encouraged the erroneous views of the habits of the birds which for a long time prevailed.
They come in well-fed condition, and are shot in such quantities that every family has the strange treat of stewed and roasted toucans daily for many weeks.
The bill can scarcely be said to be a very good contrivance for seizing and crushing small birds, or taking them from their nests in crevices of trees, habits which have been imputed to Toucans by some writers.
Solitary Toucans are sometimes met with at the same season, hopping silently up and down the larger boughs, and peering into crevices of the tree-trunks.
Birds and monkeys in this glorious forest were very abundant; the bear-like Pithecia hirsuta being the most remarkable of the monkeys, and the Umbrella Chatterer and Curl-crested Toucans amongst the most beautiful of the birds.
The ringleader enacted the part of the Tushaua, or chief, and carried a sceptre, richly decorated with the orange, red, and green feathers of toucans and parrots.
One day, whil walking along the principal pathway in the woods near Ega, I saw one of these Toucans seated gravely on a low branch close to the road, and had no difficulty in seizing it with my hand.
These three supposed toucans have been copied and recopied by later authors, who have accepted in full the remarks and deductions accompanying them.
The particulars wherein it differs from the supposed toucans are so many and striking that it will be superfluous to dwell upon them in detail.
While they continued thus to walk through the woods conversing, Martin and Barney were again interested and amused by the immense number of brilliant parrots and toucans which swooped about, chattering from tree to tree, in large flocks.
Toucans live chiefly in the trees, and spend most of their time in the topmost branches, where they are fond of gathering together in large flocks.
The consequence is that they do not look like toucans at all, or even like birds, and seem to be mere bundles of loose feathers.
When they go to sleep toucans double their tails over upon their backs, just as though they had hinges at the base, and bury their great beaks among the feathers of their shoulders.
This fashion has passed from Brazil and Peru into Europe, and muffs made of the throats of Toucans sell at a great price.
Shaw, under the name of the Crimson Hornbill, which Mr. Swainson thinks may prove to be a link betweenToucans and Hornbills, and thus combine the beauty of plumage of the former with the peculiarity of form of the latter.
This curious instrument so struck the naturalists of Brazil, where manyToucans are found, that it furnished these birds with a name.
The characteristic of the birds which compose the family of Toucans is their enormous beak.
Toucans feed on fruits and insects; they live in bands of from six to ten, in damp places where the palm tree flourishes, for its fruit is their favourite food.
Nor were there orchids blooming on the great tree near; nor any of the little toucans which had been so attractive in 1896.
Screaming macaws, in their gorgeous livery of blue, yellow, and scarlet, occasionally flew overhead, and tanagers and toucans were not uncommon.
The toucans are very curious-looking birds, with their enormous bills.
Parrots and trogons, and tanagers flashed around our heads; and the great-billed and silly-looking toucans sat silent in the branches above.
The toucans and trogons flashed from grove to grove, or balanced their bodies under the spray of the jet d'eau; while the humming-birds hung upon the leaves of some honeyed blossom, or prinkled over the parterre like straying sunbeams.
This leads me to remark that it is not at all incredible that toucans may owe the enormous size of their beaks to sexual selection, for the sake of displaying the diversified and vivid stripes of colour, with which these organs are ornamented.
Out of the five species of toucans living in this part of Guiana we found the nests of four, and the one which eluded us was the big sulphur-breasted fellow.
Then a deep whirr sounded overhead, and another, and another, and with a rush a dozen great toucans were all about me.
The region of the furculum is equally well marked in the Toucans and Sun-birds.
Toucans are very scarce birds, and if their beaks were no larger than those of other birds of their size, this medicine could never be obtained in sufficient quantities.
Do you know, then, why toucans have such exaggerated beaks?
Squirrels gambolled on the branches as we passed by, and toucansseemed to tempt us to stop; but we were all anxious to reach the waterfall.
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