THE BIRDS OF INDIA. 



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It is found throuorhout India, affectinof forest lands in 

 preference to any other. Its wing power is feeble. 



It is a shy and solitary species, nearly always met with 

 singly, except during the actual pairing season. 



It feeds almost entirely on the ground, svhere it finds an 

 abundance of those insects on which, for the most part, it 

 subsists. 



Some of the insular pittas are very gorgeously attired, 

 but they are very seldom seen in confinement, for which 

 their habits and disposition seem to unfit them. 



THE HORNBILLS. 



Fam i ly — Bncerotidce. 



Genus — 1. Buceros. B. rhinoceros. Rhinoceros 



Hornbill. 



2. Dichoceros. D. bicorjiis. Concave-cas- 



qued Horn- 

 bill. 



3. Antliracoccros. A. coronatus. Crowned 



Hornbill. 

 A. malabaricus. Indian Pied 

 Hornbill. 



These extraordinary birds, whose heads seem to be even 

 more enormously over-weighted tlian the toucans, are, 

 nevertheless, quite equal to bearing the burden that is laid 

 upon them, and are even remarkable for the jollity, not to 

 say levity, of their disposition. Of the several species 

 resident in India, those selected for consideration have 

 lived in the menagerie of the London Zoological Society. 



Rhinoceros, or Great Hornbill. — Found in Malabar 

 and the Malay Peninsula. A large bird, measuring 4 



