1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
TOUCAN, the Brazilian name of a bird,1 long since adopted into nearly all European languages, and apparently first given currency in England (though not then used as an English word) in 1668 2 by W. Charleton (Onomasticon, p. 115); but the bird, with its enormous beak and feather-like tongue, was described by Oviedo in his Sumario de la historia natural de las Indias, first published at Toledo in 1527 (ch. 42)," and, to quote the translation of part of the passage in F. Willughby's Ornithology (p. 1 29) , " there i…
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