350 BITCEBOTID^. 



Le Calao ca.ronci\l4, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Ois. cTAfi-.v. pp. 109, 230, 



231, 232 (1806). 

 Buceros brae, Dumont, Did. Sc. Nat.Vi. p. 201 (1817). 

 Buceros abvssinicus, Bodd. Tail. PL Enl. p. 48 (1783) ; Gm. S. N. 



i. p. 358 '(1788) ; Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 143 (1790) ; Shmv, Gen. 



Zool. viii. p. 21 (1811) ; Tleill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iv. p. 589 



(1816) ; Men-em, Ersch zi. Gruber, Enci/cl. xiii. p. 281 (1824) ; 



Des Murs, c^-c. in Lefehvre, Voy. Abyss, p. 125 (1845-50) ; Hartl. 



J. f. O. 1855, p. 361 ; Nitzs. Pteryl. Ray Soc. p. 102, pi. vi. 



figs. 1 & 2 (1867). 

 Bucorvus abvssinicus, Less. Traiti Orn. p. 256 (1831); Bonap. 



Consp. G. A. i. p. 89 (1850) ; Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 2 



(1854); Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Miis. E. Lnd. Co. ii. p. 581 



(1856-8) ; B'lanf. Geol. Zool. Abyss, p. 330 (1870) ; Antin. e 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. p. 420 (1873) ; id. Cut. Ucc. p. 57 



(1873) ; Reich. J.f. O. 1875, p. 12 ; Elliot, Monogr. Bucerot. pi. i. 



(1877) : Otiley, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 461 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Genov.\xl p. 101 (1884); Dubois, Bull. Mus. Behj. iii. p. 221 



(1884) ; Beddard, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 41, fig. 2 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1888, 



p. 48 ; Beddard, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 588, figs. 1 & 4. 

 Tra^opan abyssiuicus, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 65 (1841) ; Riipp. 



Sj/st. Uebers. p. 79 (1845). 

 Biicorax abyssiuicus, Sundev. CEfver. Kongl. Vetens. Ak. Forh. vi. 



p. 161 (1849) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 165 (1857) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 



1861, p. 261 ; ? Monteiro, Ibis, 1862, p. 338 ; Ayitin. Cat. desc. 



Ucc. p. 77 (1864) ; Sharpie, Ibis, 1869, p. 385 ; Bocaye, P. Z. S. 



1873, p. 698, figs. 1 & 4. 

 Bucorvus abyssiuicus, var. guiueensis, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Belg. iii. 



p. 221 (1884). 

 Tmetoeeroa abyssiuicus, Cah. ^ Heine, Mtis. Hein. ii. p. 175 (1860) ; 



Finsch u. Hartl. Voy. O.-Afr. p. 480 [part] (1870) ; Finsch, Tr. 



Z. S. vii. p. 279 (1870). 

 Tmetoceros habessiuicus, Heui/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 731 [part] 



(1871). 

 Buceros carunculatus, Wagl. Syst. Av. Buceros, uo. 6 (1827). 

 Buceros carunculatus, var. abvssiuicus, p. 19, & var. guiueensis, p. 20, 



Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas. i. Bu'ceros (1862). 

 Bucorvus pyrrhops, Elliot, Ann. Mag. N. H. xx. p. 171 (1878) ; id. 



Monogr. Bucerot. pi. ii. (1878) ; De Souza, J. Sci. Lisb. xxxviii. 



p. 118, pi. (1884). 

 Bucorax guiueensis, Bocage, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 698, figs. 3 & 7. 



Adult male. All the plumage black except the primaries, which 

 are white ; naked skin round eye and on middle of throat bhie, 

 remainder red ; iris brown ; legs and feet dusky ; bill and casque 

 black, the base of the maxilla with a reddish patch ; casque short, 

 abruptly truncate, and wide open anteriorly. Total length 43 

 inches, wing 23, tail 13'5, tarsus 6-5. 



Adult female. Plumage resembles that of male ; naked skin 

 round eye and on throat purple; iris, legs, and bill as above. 

 Total length 42 inches, wing 20-S, tail 13, tarsus 5-8. 



Hah. North-eastern to West Africa. 



a. Ad.sk.; b. Head. Shoa (-ffrwm). India Museum, 



c, d. (S $ ad. sk. Facado, Abyssinia, Tweeddale Coll. 



May ( W. Jesse). 



