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spirited mate is ever on the alert to gratify his dainty mis- 

 tress, who compels him to bring all her viands unbroken, 

 for if a fig or any fruit be injured, she will not touch it. 



Buceros cavatus. 



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BLACK HORN BILL. 



This species from its colour is called by the natives the 

 black hornbill. 



Buceros pusaran. 



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SMALL HORNBILL. 



Two other species are considerably smaller than the 

 preceding. 



Buceros albirostris. 



" plicatus. 



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CLIMBING BIRDS. 



The Scansores, or climbing birds, embrace in ihese 

 Provinces parrakeets, lorikeets, woodpeckers, barbets, 

 creepers, nuthatches, and cuckoos. 



BLACK-BILLED PARRAKEET.* 



Immense flocks of parrakeets may he seen simultane- 

 ously descending upon the rice fields, where persons 

 have to be tti constant attendance to drive, them away 

 during the season of harvest. The bill of the female is 

 black, and the natives say, always continues so ; but Mr. 

 Blyth remarks : " In a presumed female observed in cap- 

 tivity, the upper mandible changed from black to coral 

 red, when the bird was about eighteen month? old." 

 Palaornis barbotus, Swainson. 



Psittacus '* Gmelin. 



pondicerianus, " 



borneus, " 



• The generic native names fora'.lthe parrakeets are 



