402 BUCEROTIDzE. 



3. Lophoceros fasciatus. 



Le Calao longibande, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Oi.s. (fAfr. v. p. 115, pi. 233 



(1806). 

 Biiceros longibandus, ? Wilkes, Encijcl. Lond. iii. p. 480 (1808). 

 Buceros fasciatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 34 (1811) ; Merrevi, 



Ersch u. Gruber, Encycl. xiii. p. 284 (1824) : Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 400 (1847) ; Cranch, Tuckeys E.vp. River Zaire, App. 4, p. 407 



(1819) ; Jard. Ann. May. N. H. xvii. p. 80 (1846) ; SM. Mus. 



Pays-Bas, i. Buceros, p. 12 (1862) ; Eyton, Osteal. Av. p. 62 



(1867) ; EeicJi. J. f. 0. 1877, p. 18 [part.] ; " Oustalet, N. Arch. Mus. 



(2) ii. p. 69 (1879). 

 Tockus iasciatus, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 91 (1850) ; Cassin, P. 



Ac. Nat. Sn. Philnd. viii. p. 319 (1857) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



pp. 163, 274 [part.] (1857) ; Cassin, P. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1859, 



p. 140; Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 123 (1881) ; Elliot, Mon. Bucerot. 



pi. 50 (upper fig.) [text] (1878) ; Sharjye, J. Linn. Soc. xvii. 



p. 435 (1884). 

 (irammicus fasciatus, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p, 3 (1854). 

 Lo])lioceros fasciatus, Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 168 (1860) ; 



Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 188 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 41 ; id. Ibis, 



1888, p. 59 ; Reich. J.f. O. 1890, p. 114. 

 Buceros (Lophoceros) fasciatus, Dubois, Bidl. Mus. Bely. iii. p. 214 



(1884). 

 Buceros melanoleucus, Vieill. (t>ec Licht.) N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iv. 



p. 5.95 0816) ; Wayl. Syst. Av. Buceros, no. 16 (1827). 

 Buceros semifasciatus, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 163 [part.] (1857). 



Adult male. A spot on the front of the shoulder, middle of breast, 

 belly, front of thighs, under tail-coverts, and third and fourth pairs 

 of tail-feathers white ; remainder of plumage black ; the back and 

 wings glossed with purplish : naked skin round the eye and on un- 

 feathered part of throat dark blue ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet 

 dusky brown ; bill and small casque yellowish white, except the 

 anterior half of the casque, the end of the bill, and the whole base 

 of the lower mandible, which are dusky red. Total length 23-5 

 inches, wing 11, tail 10-3, tarsus 1'3. 



Adult female does not differ in plumage from the adult male, 

 but the naked skin round the eye and on the throat is yellow 

 instead of dark blue. Total length 20 inches, wing 9-4, tail 8*2, 

 tarsus 1"3. 



Immature birds have the third and fourth pairs of tail-feathers 

 mixed irregularly with black. In one example the second and 

 fifth pairs of tail-feathers are also mixed with white. 



Ilab. W. Africa, Angola to Gaboon ; and north-eastwards to 

 Equatorial Africa. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Ogowe Biver. H. Ansell, Esq. [P.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Ogowe River. Shelley Coll. 



c. c? ad. sk. Gaboon {Du Chaillii). Sharpe Coll. 



d. c iuim. sk. Chinchonxo, April (Petit). Shelley Coll. 



e. S ad. sk. Ivando {Lucan ^- Petit). Shelley Coll. 



/. c? ad. sk. Seumiio, Nyam-nyam, Feb. F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



//. 2imiii.sk. Ndorinua, Nyam-uyani, Sept. F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



/*. S ad. sk. KuLbi, Equatorial Africa, July. ]']iuiu Pasha [P.]. 



i-l. 2 ad. et TingasijEquatorial Africa, July, Euiiu Pasha [P.]. 

 imm. sk. -'^ng'-) Sept, 



