Spot-billed Toucanet

33-37 cm. The male has a black head and underparts, green upperparts and tail: ear tufts golden yellow: nuchal collar yellow: a dark yellow flank tuft: rusty thighs: red undertail coverts, the cenral three pairs of tail rectrices with chestnut tips: bill with a fine black basal line, greenish-yellow to ivory, brighter at tip, central culmen black, maxilla with 3 - 5 vertical black stripes, mandible with a small distal black stripe: eye yellow, the black pupil appearing like a horizontal slit: orbital skin light blue to green or yellow.<nThe female has chestnut on the head: cinnamon rufous underparts: cinamon front of ear tufts and flank tuft: and a shorter bill:.<nThe immature is duller, without a collar.

Call a dark froglike grow..grow..grow... example 1 , a series of high keck calls.

Forages alone, in pairs, or groups in fruit trees at all levels: also descends to the ground to collect prey.

October - January. Nests in a tree cavity.

Fairly common to uncommon in primary and disturbed forest, gallery forest. Up to 1000 meters.

Throughout. Forests of the <8E>Serra Mantiqueira<8E> and <8E>Serra dos Org<C4>os, and coastal mountains. In Estado S<C4>o Paulo reported from <8E>Sete Barras, Guaratuba, Ubatumirim, Porto Estrada, Cananeia, Fazenda Intervales ^119 .