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.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The birds and other inhabitants of the bamboos, were those of the more open jungle,-flocks drifting through the clumps, monkeys occasionally swinging from one to another of the elastic tips, while toucans came and went.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
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.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe