toco toucan

plural toco toucans

1. Ramphastos toco, a kind of toucan.

   Toco Toucan

   [1816, James Francis Stephens George Shaw, “Ramphastos”, in General Zoology or Systematic Natural History, volume VIII, part II, London: George Kearsley, page 361

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   The most extraordinary part of these birds is the enormous beak, which in some species, such as the Toco Toucan, is of gigantic dimensions, seeming big enough to give its owner a perpetual headache[…]

   1885, John George Wood, “Birds”, in Popular Natural History, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, page 409

   The result is a non-existent bird: whereas this bill evidently belongs to a Toco Toucan (such as the one depicted in Belon), the colouring of the bird is not that of a Toco, and the position of the toes (three in front, one in back) is wrong too.

   2007, Paul J. Smith, “On toucans and hornbills: readings in early modern ornithology from Belon to Buffon”, in K. A. E. Enenkel, Paul J. Smith, editors, Early Modern Zoology: The Construction of Animals in Science, Literature and the Visual Arts, Leiden; Boston: Brill, page 87

   Synonyms: toco