Why toucan's beak is black

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Why toucan's beak is black.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: face. · view the constellation · filed as A2343.2.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 178.

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